As discussed in Part 15 last week, what became the predominant narrative among mid-17th century historians was Italian geographer Giovanni Battista Ramusio's garbled version that the First Mass in the Philippine archipelago took place not in Mazaua but "in the island of Butuan."
No one in 17th century Europe called attention to Ramusio's inadvertent fudging of the First Mass site. In 1601, however, Spain's colonial historian and official chronicler of the Indies, Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, affirmed Pigafetta's account that the first Holy Mass indeed took place in Mazaua. Fr. Francisco Colin, SJ, in good faith took it upon himself to resolve the conflict between Pigafetta's account and that of Ramusio's.
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