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Magellans Cross #Photography 101

BY: @philnard | CREATED: Feb. 4, 2018, 2:19 p.m. | VOTES: 1 | PAYOUT: $0.00 | [ VOTE ]

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Magellan's Cross is a Christian crossplanted by Portugese and Spanish explorers as ordered by Ferdinand Magellan upon arriving in Cebu in the Philippines on (depending on source) 15 March 1521.
This cross is housed in a chanel next to the Basilica Minore del Sto NiƱo on Magallanes Street just in front of the city center of Cebu City. A sign below the cross describes the original cross as encased inside the wooden cross that is found in the center of the chapel. This is to protect the original cross from people who chipped away parts of the cross for souvenir purposes in the belief that the cross possesses miraculous powers.Some people, however, believe that the original cross has been destroyed or disappeared after Magellan's death and the cross is a replica that was planted there by the Spaniards after they successfully Christianized the Philippines.

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