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| Lapu-Lapu (1491—1542) was the datu of Mactan, an island in the Visayas in the Philippines, who is known as the first native of the archipelago to have resisted Spanish colonization. He is now regarded as the first Filipino hero.
On the morning of April 27, 1521, Lapu-Lapu led approximately 1,500 Mactan warriors armed with barong, spears, kampilan and kalasag, in a battle against 49 Christian soldiers led by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan.
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| Magellan's Cross, is a Christian cross planted by Portuguese,
and Spanish explorers as ordered by Ferdinand Magellan upon arriving in Cebu in the Philippines on April 8, 1521.
This cross is housed in a chapel next to the Basilica Minore del Santo Niño on Magallanes Street (Magallanes being the Spanish name of Magellan),
just in front of the city hall of Cebu City. A sign below the cross describes the original cross is encased inside the wooden cross that is found
in the center of the chapel.
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The Santo Niño de Cebú ("Holy Child of Cebu")
is a Roman Catholic figure of the Child Jesus highly similar to the Infant Jesus of Prague. Like the image's counterpart in Prague, the figure is
clothed in expensive textile robes mostly donations from fervent devotees in the Philippines and abroad. The statue is the oldest Catholic relic in
the Philippines and permanently housed since 1565 at the Basilica Minore del Santo Niño in Cebu City, Cebu.
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