Getting our Philippine history right after 500 years – Part 8

(2045th of a series)

Last March 25, a week before the nation was to mark the 500th year of its birth as a Christian nation, this column started this plain layman’s chronological review of Philippine history to look into how the island of Limasawa came to be recognized by the national government and the country’s church authorities as the site of the first Holy Mass in our archipelago.