Cebu Magellan’s Cross

Magellan’s Cross is a Christian Cross planted by Portuguese and Spanish Explorers as ordered by Ordered by Ferdinand Magellan upon arriving in Cebu in the Philippines on April 21, 1521. It is mainly located in a street aptly name for the first Portuguese to set foot in Cebu, Magallanes. He planted a cross to signify this important event about the propagation of the Roman Catholic faith in what is now Cebu, in central Philippines. The original cross is reputedly encased in another wooden cross for protection, as people started chipping it away in the belief that it had miraculous healing powers.
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