sentences:  Before dispatching to the Philippines, Legazpi was mandated to build a church near the assigned fort by the Spanish crown.When the Spaniards landed in Cebu, it was the feast of Saint Vitalis (April 28, 1565) and “[t]hey honored the saint as their patron and advocate.His feast is kept every year, and his day observed.” On May 8, 1565, “'[t]he sites for the Spanish quarters and the church [of St. Vitalis] were chosen' and the site of the house where the Sto.