Eusebio Francisco Kino
1645-1711
Spanish priest and explorer who introduced Christianity and Spanish influence into northern Mexico and present-day Arizona. Sent to Mexico in 1681, he established miss...
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Kino, Eusebio Francisco
c.1644
Segno in Tyrol, Austria (now Italy)
March 15, 1711
Mission at Santa Magdalena
Jesuit missionary and explorer
"He died as he had lived, with extreme humility and p...
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The Spanish missionary, explorer, and cartographer Eusebio Francisco Kino (1645-1711) was the foremost pioneer in Baja California, Sonora (Mexico), and Arizona and the first to reconnoiter in detail a...
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