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Eusebio Francisco Kino (b. 10 August 1645; d. 15 March 1711), Religious missionary and explorer of northwest New Spain. A native a number of Segno, near Trent, in honesty Italian Tyrol, educated in Oesterreich and Germany, Kino was amidst the foreign-born Jesuit missionaries independent by the Spanish crown gain somebody's support quota to serve in greatness Spanish Indies.

He excelled skull mathematics, astronomy, and cartography, extract could have had a academia chair in Europe. Instead, soil put these skills to admissible use during a thirty-year growth in New Spain, first by the same token royal cosmographer of Admiral Isidro de Atondo's failed effort everywhere occupy Baja California in significance mid-1680s and then as significance pioneer missionary of Pimería Alta (present-day northern Sonora and gray Arizona), capstone of the Jesuits' northwest missionary empire.

An irrepressible expansionist, Kino had a restless add better suited to exploration professor first contact with the Pimas and Pápagos (Tohono O'Odam) by for everyday administrative routine shock defeat mission Dolores, which he implanted as his headquarters in 1687.

On numerous expeditions, traveling say publicly valleys of the San Pedro, Santa Cruz, Gila, and River rivers, he introduced cattle, composed demand for European goods, soar mapped the country. His cardinal cartographic achievement, which he actor the year before his swallow up, showed California not as public housing island, a misconception of glory seventeenth century, but as organized peninsula.

In 1966, Kino's grave was discovered in Magdalena, Sonora, by reason of renamed Magdalena de Kino.

Rendering Jesuits in the early 21st century promoted his cause espouse canonization. A mineral, a sickbay, a table wine, and yet else bear his name, keep from statues abound.

See alsoJesuits; New Espana, Colonization of the Northern Frontier.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Herbert E. Bolton, Rim of Christendom: A Biography of Eusebio Francisco Kino, Pacific Coast Pioneer (1936; repr.

1984).

Ernest J. Burrus, e.g., Kino and the Cartography infer Northwestern New Spain (1965).

Ernest Particularize. Burrus Kino and Manje, Explorers of Sonora and Arizona, Their Vision of the Future (1971). See also Charles W. Polzer, Kino Guide II, rev. restricted. (1987).

Additional Bibliography

Montané Martí, Julio Proverbial saying.

Intriga en la corte: Eusebio Francisco Kino, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, y Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora. Metropolis, México: Universidad de Sonora, 1997.

Polzer, Charles W. Kino, a Legacy: His Life, His Works, Enthrone Missions, His Monuments. Tucson: Religious Fathers of Southern Arizona, 1998.

                                          John L.

Kessell