The shrine is right in front on City Hall. The taxi dropped us off in front of it.
It always seemed more isolated from the images I see of it.
The shrine is right in front on City Hall. The taxi dropped us off in front of it.
It always seemed more isolated from the images I see of it.
If I’m not mistaken, that’s not the original cross anymore. That cross instead contains slivers of the original cross. Kinda weird.
from what i read in other sources magellan’s cross was chopped up after the battle and used as wood for fire. what the cross in cebu contains, instead, is legaspi’s cross.
Magellan was lazier than you think. That area is actually the starting point of North Reclamation Area, a reclaimed piece of land. The exact spot was at the shoreline they made their first landfall 400 years ago. Luckily for Magellan, Rajah Humabon was very tourism-oriented (yes, we Cebuanos have always been, even back then) and welcomed the strangers. Lapu-Lapu, on the other hand, had no qualms about kicking out the arrogant, interloping jackass. What history doesn’t point out very often is that the Filipinos, including the Mactan islanders, have been engaged in peaceful trade with the Chinese merchants for centuries at that point.
PCow: yup, the Magellan’s Cross is actually a marker for the original cross. From what I know, the remains of the original one is incased either within the marker or buried under it. I guess the original one was worn down by the elements after centuries of being left out on the open beach. The Sto. Nino in the church IS the original one the Spaniards gave the Cheiftain’s wife though.
Lazy Spaniards. XD
If I recall what Ambeth Ocampo wrote correctly in his essay, a Gallery of Traitors, Rajah Humabon was said to have chopped up that cross after the survivors of the Magellan Expedition left.
The Chaplain of the Magellan Expedition was a Fray Pedro de Valderama. Soldier, Antonio de Pigafetta was the Chronicler. Years after, he decided to join the Order of the Knights of Malta & Rhodes, an order of Warrior-Monks.
Ambeth Ocampo would be so proud of us. So proud.