Events from 1521

Diet of Worms: Luther declares 'Here I stand'

Ferdinand Magellan arrives in the Philippines, landing at Homonhon Island and later at Cebu - first documented European contact with the Philippines

Ferdinand Magellan killed in the Battle of Mactan by Lapu-Lapu's warriors, who resisted Spanish colonization

Birth of St. Peter Canisius in Nijmegen - future Doctor of the Church and 'Second Apostle of Germany'

St. Ignatius of Loyola wounded at Pamplona - Cannonball shatters leg - begins conversion reading lives of saints - 'What if I should do what St. Francis did, what St. Dominic did?'