How come that another false historical narrative intruded just three years after the Augustinian priest Dr. Carlo Amoretti found in 1797 the long-lost manuscript of Antonio Pigafetta confirming that Mazaua rather than "the island of Butuan" was the site of the First Holy Mass in 1521?
Amoretti had taken it upon himself to heavily revise Pigafetta's manuscript for an Italian edition, followed right after by a French edition that he himself translated. In doing so, Amoretti somehow straightened world history - detecting and correcting the 276-year-old false narrative started by the Giovanni Battista Ramusio in 1536 who replaced Mazaua with Butuan as the First Mass site. However, Amoretti himself committed an even more flagrant blunder by equating Magellan's Mazaua with the "Limassava" island invented by the Spanish Jesuit missionary Fr. Francisco Combes, SJ, in 1664.
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