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  Eusebio Kino - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eusebio Francisco Kino S.J. August 10, 1644–March 15, 1711) was a Catholic priest who became famous in what is now northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States for the methods he used to Christianize the indigenous Native American population.
Kino was born Eusebio Francesco Chini on August 10, 1644 in Segno, today frazione of Taio, a village in the Val di Non in the Bishopric of Trent now in present-day Italy.
When Father Kino proposed that a boat be made and pushed across the Sonoran desert and to the Mexican west coast, a controversy arose, as many of his co-missionares questioned Father Kino's mental abilities.
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 Eusebio Francisco Kino Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
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 and map accurately large sections of this vast area.
Eusebio Kino was born on Aug. 10, 1645, in Segno, Italy.
Kino found time amid his apostolic labors to explore Arizona as far north as the Casa Grande ruins and the Gila River and westward to modern Yuma and the Colorado River.
www.bookrags.com /biography/eusebio-francisco-kino   (601 words)

  
 Eusebio Kino Summary
Father Kino was a compassionate man. He opposed the use of natives as forced labor in the mines, and he improved native agriculture by introducing wheat and cattle farming.
Eusebio Francisco Kino was a pioneering seventeenth-century Jesuit missionary.
Eusebio Francisco Kino was born in 1644 in Segno in the Austrian province of Tyrol (now Italy).
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 Famous Italian Explorers
In 1683 Father Kino was invited to go on an expedition to the still unexplored lands north of Mexico to a desert peninsula called Baja California.
Father Kino was responsible for the erection of many missions and assisted the natives in establishing a village community around the missions wherever he went.
Kino and his party followed the San Pedro northwest, finding it uninhabited for about sixty miles north of Quiburi, but at Redington and the Aravaipa area he found more settlements in the marshy areas that provided enough moisture to grow crops of calabashes, melons and beans.
www.sierra-arts.net /FamousItalians_Explorers_Kino.html   (1504 words)

  
 Eusebio Francisco Kino: Missionary, Explorer, and Cartographer
Eusebio Francisco Kino was the most picturesque missionary pioneer of all North America—explorer, astronomer, cartographer, mission builder, ranchman, cattle king, and defender of the frontier.
Thus, for Kino, the indigenous groups were what gave worth to the valleys, rivers, plains, and mountains that he traversed in his expeditions and recorded in his maps.
Kino wants the world to know about his accurate maps, which are the fruit of thirty-thousand kilometers on horseback, constantly measuring the height of the sun with his astrolabe at twenty-two to thirty-five degrees.
www.sochistdisc.org /annual_meetings/annual_2002/kino_speech.htm   (4176 words)

  
 Father Eusebio Francisco Kino - Padre on Horseback
Kino registered at the college of Hall near Innsbruck, Austria, in the program of rhetoric and logic where he contracted an unidentified illness that brought him close to death.
June 12, 1677 – Eusebio Francisco Kino is Ordained a priest in Eistady, Austria.
Kino was appointed rector of the mission and Royal Cartographer for the Californias.
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 Father Eusebio Francisco Kino (DesertUSA)
esuit missionary Father Eusebio Francisco Kino, was one of the early Spanish explorers of the deserts of the American Southwest.
Eusebio Kino was born in Segno, in the Val di Non, a valley in Tirol (now in Italy), on Aug. 10, 1645.
Father Kino helped the Pima Indians diversify their agriculture and aided them in their constant wars with the Apaches, while opposing Indian enslavement in the silver mines of northern Mexico.
www.desertusa.com /mag98/april/papr/du_kino.html   (390 words)

  
 Father Eusebio Francisco Kino - Padre on Horseback continued...
Kino continued to develop maps of the explorations of the new area, but San Bruno was officially abandoned in May of 1685.
Kino establishes five new missionaries that are assigned to the Pimeria.
Kino wrote a number of books, among them are: Favores Celestiales (published in 1708), Exposición Astronómica de el Cometa (an account of the Comet of 1680-1681, published in 1681), and a map of the Pimería Alta region (published in 1705).
www.dotcomtucson.com /tucson_history/father_eusebio_kino_2.html   (746 words)

  
 Tumacacori NHP: Father Kino
From 1687, when he first entered the Pimería Alta, until his death in 1711, Father Eusebio Francisco Kino was tireless in his travels through uncharted desert, river valleys, and mountain ranges.
A cartographer and astronomer, Kino drew the first accurate maps of the Pimería Alta, of the Sea of Cortez, and of Baja California.
Until 1711 Kino continued his efforts to build agriculturally self-sufficient mission pueblos such as Tumacácori and Guevavi.
www.nps.gov /tuma/Father_Kino.html   (459 words)

  
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Kino finished it just a year before his death in the desert; and his treatise was shelved in the library of the Jesuit college in Mexico City for lack of a living promoter.
Kino’s return to the mainland and his assignment to the missions of the northwestern frontier was obediently accepted, and eased somewhat by the knowledge that he would be only a few days sail away from those poor isolated humans.
The threat of jealous colonials to oust the Italo-German Jesuit in 1690 was crushed by bushels of wheat, ollas of corn, and trampled by herds of cattle and horses.
web.tiscali.it /paolorossi/docassociation/father_polzer_06_03_script.htm   (1531 words)

  
 Father Kino
Father Eusebio Kino was the leading explorer of California and Pimeria Alta, but his story begins far to the east--in northern Italy.
Kino hated to leave the people he had befriended there, but had to accept the government's decision when officials simply refused to send any more supplies to the settlement.
Although Kino explored the area of the San Pedro River and was friends with Coro, the chief of the Sobaipuri, he never established a mission that far east.
www.discoverseaz.com /History/Kino.html   (2044 words)

  
 March 15: Eusebio Kino collapses after productive life
Kino became a priest after contracting a serious illness when he was eighteen.
Kino taught the Indians to raise sheep, goats and burros.
Kino not only taught the Indians the religion of Europe, but he defended them against the Spanish who would have enslaved them to work in silver mines, and against the the fierce Apache warriors to the north.
chi.gospelcom.net /DAILYF/2002/03/daily-03-15-2002.shtml   (682 words)

  
 Parallel Histories: Father Eusebio Kino / Historias Paralelas: El Padre Eusebio Kino
Father Eusebio Francisco Kino (1645-1711), an Italian-born Jesuit priest and former royal cosmographer in the service of Spain, explored Pimería Alta in present-day southern Arizona and northern Mexico in the 1680s and 1690s.
Kino introduced horses, cattle, and new crops such as wheat to the native peoples of the Pima region.
Kino proved that California was not an island, a myth that had endured for almost a century.
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 Father Eusebio Kino: Explorer - EnchantedLearning.com
Kino was a missionary who founded many missions and explored areas in southwestern North America (Pimería Alta), including areas in what are now northern Sonora (Mexico), southern California (USA) and southern Arizona (USA).
Kino was born in Tirol, Italy, and was educated in Germany.
Kino also established that Lower California was not an island; it was a peninsula, the Baja Peninsula.
www.enchantedlearning.com /explorers/page/k/kino.shtml   (324 words)

  
 Eusebio Francisco Kino   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Kino combined his missionary and educational outreach to the natives with extensive exploration and cartography.
Kino founded the San Xavier del Bac Mission, about 8 miles south of Tucson, Arizona, in 1692 and dedicated it to St.
"Bac" means "where a stream emerges." Kino laid the foundation for the original church in 1700, and a number of Jesuits followed him in ministering to the people there until Charles III expelled the Jesuits from his Spanish possessions in 1767.
www.manresa-sj.org /stamps/1_Kino.htm   (233 words)

  
 Mission Churches of the Sonoran Desert   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Eusebio Kino was born in 1645 in the Italian Tyrol.
The time was not yet ripe for this enterprise, however, and Kino was reassigned to northern Sonora in 1687.
Kino labored in the Pimería Alta until March, 1711, when he arrived in Magdalena to dedicate a new chapel to St. Francis, his patron saint.
parentseyes.arizona.edu /missions/kino.html   (303 words)

  
 Tumacácori National Historical Park - Eusebio Francisco Kino (U.S. National Park Service)
Kino heads toward this passage which leads to his discovery of California.
According to Bannon, Kino passed away in the arms of Padre Augustín de Campos.
That Father Kino established more than twenty missions among the O'odham Indians of the Pimería Alta between 1687 and 1711.
www.nps.gov /tuma/historyculture/eusebio-francisco-kino.htm   (1638 words)

  
 Bahía Kino, Sonora - México   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Bahía Kino is washed by the Sea of Cortés in the center of the sonoran litoral, 62 miles from Hermosillo, the capital of the state.
It was named on behalf of the Jesuit missioner Eusebio Francisco Kino, who visit the place during his evangelist journey on the XVII century.
On the streets, the seris dressed up with their typical wardrobe, offer hand made products: collars and earrings made with sea shells, woven hammocks, palm woven hats and specially figures carved in palo fierro, a tree that grows nearby and is of great strength and weight.
www.sonora-mexico.com /bahiakino2.htm   (321 words)

  
 Magdalena de Kino - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In the municipal seat are the rest are named after the Italian missionary Eusebio Francisco Kino (whose last name was added to the name of the city), who taught to the natives of the region and until the territory of Pima in Arizona and convert to the Roman Catholic faith and better forms of culture.
It is located in the northern part of the State of Sonora, to 80 kilometers of the border, it is contiguous to the north with Nogales, to the south with the municipality of Santa Ana, to the east with Imuris and Cucurpe and to the west with the municipalities of Tubutama and Sáric.
In 1687 with the arrival of the father Eusebio Francisco Kino in Sonora, the first missions began to be based fruit of an untiring work.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Magdalena_de_Kino   (857 words)

  
 Eusebio Francisco Kino - HighBeam Encyclopedia
Kino, Eusebio Francisco, c.1644-1711, missionary explorer in the American Southwest, b.
He was the first to map Pimería Alta on the basis of actual exploration, and his map, published in 1705, and many times reproduced, remained the basis for maps of the region until the 19th cent.
Bibliography: See E. Burros, Kino and the Cartography of Northwestern New Spain (1965); F. Smith, J. Kessell, and F. Fox, Father Kino in Arizona (1966).
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 Kino
Kino was born in 1645 in valley in Tyrol (now in Italy).
Kino discovered that California was not an island.
In 1687, Father Kino established his first mission among rural Indians of Sonora at Nuestra Sonora de los Doblres.
www.iss.k12.nc.us /schools/lakenorman/kino.htm   (496 words)

  
 Eusebio Francisco Kino
Kino trajo consigo una Cédula Real que prohibía por 20 años el servicio de los indios en actividades fuera de las misiones, lo que le dio a ésta aquí la exclusividad administrativa del indio, al menos durante el inicio del periodo misional.
Sin embargo, la idea de Kino no se reducía sólo a desarrollar el cristianismo en la Pimería Alta sino que por encima de ésta se encontraba la meta que siempre sostuvo, utilizar nuestra región como puente de comunicación hacia el este asiático: a China en particular.
Empezando 1697 Kino, sin abandonar su idea original de comunicarse hacia el noroeste, buscaba ahora reforzar el enclave misional sobre el río Santa Cruz y fundaba ranchos ganaderos en su cauce, con lo que algunos lugares del actual municipio de Nogales se incorporaron a la nomenclatura europea.
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 Father Eusebio Francisco Kino
A Kino keepsake : facsimile of an original Eusebio Francisco Kino field diary, preserved at the University of Arizona Library, describing Southern Arizona in 1699.
Kino and the cartography of northwestern New Spain / by Ernest J.Burrus.
Unknown Arizona and Sonora, 1693-1721; from the Francisco Fernandez del Castillo version of Luz de tierra incognita; an English translation of pt.
jeff.scott.tripod.com /kino.html   (224 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Eusebio Francisco Kino (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Eusebio Francisco Kino[AOOsA´byO frAnsEs´kO kE´nO] Pronunciation Key, c.1644–1711, missionary explorer in the American Southwest, b.
He was the first to map PimerIa Alta on the basis of actual exploration, and his map, published in 1705, and many times reproduced, remained the basis for maps of the region until the 19th cent.
See E. Burros, Kino and the Cartography of Northwestern New Spain (1965); F. Smith, J. Kessell, and F. Fox, Father Kino in Arizona (1966).
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/K/Kino-Eus.html   (377 words)

  
 Icon: Fr. Eusebio Francisco Kino, S.J.
Eusebio Francisco Kino, S.J. - Apostle to the Pimeria Alta
Amantísimo San Francisco Xavier tu has intercedido con gran eficacia a través de los siglos para atraer a la fe y a la esperanza a los no creyentes entodo el mundo.
Remember God’s humble servant, Eusebio Francisco Kino, who vowed his life in the service of the peoples of the Americas and who imitated your virtues so intensely.
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 KINO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Kino soon set up his new home base at Nuestra Señora de los Dolores, at the Pima Village of Cosari, and soon he was exploring the lands of the Pimas further to the north.
In 1697 Padre Kino first explored the southern fringes of what was then called Apachería--the lands of the Apaches.
After the expedition Kino desired to build a permanent mission near the Gila-San Pedro junction, but died before he was to able to achieve that dream.
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 Eusebio Francisco Kino - Toseeka Search Results
Eusebio Francisco Kino S.J. Kino was born Eusebio Francesco Chini on August 10,...
Jesuit missionary Father Eusebio Francisco Kino, was one of the early Spanish...
He established over 20 mission and visitas, and was known for his ability to create relationships between indigenous peoples and the religious institutions he represented.
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 Bahia Kino, Mexico
Some 115km/72mi west of Hermosillo lies a beautiful bay, the Bahía Kino, with the fishing village of Viejo Kino and the tourist resort of Nuevo Kino, with facilities for many kinds of water sports.
The names commemorate the famous Jesuit missionary and explorer Eusebio Francisco Kino (1644-1711), who established more than 25 missions in Sonora at the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th c.
It was the Austrian-born Kino who proved that Baja California was not an island but a peninsula.
www.planetware.com /mexico/bahia-kino-mex-son-bk.htm   (127 words)

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