Magellan's Cross
Wooden cross planted by Spanish explorers in fifteen twenty-one, encased in tindalo wood inside an octagonal coral-stone pavilion.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Magellan's Cross in Cebu City follows the wooden cross planted on this shore on April 14, 1521, and the mass baptism of Rajah Humabon and hundreds of his people that same day. It traces what happened to that original cross in the decades after Magellan's death nearby, through fires, rebuilding, and the islanders who scraped its wood for medicine. Listen for how the pavilion sealed behind coral stone above you came to be built.
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