The Kino Heritage Society celebrated the 30th anniversary of the “Three Statues for Three Nations,” a ceremony honoring Father Eusebio Francisco Kino, on Sunday morning. The celebration ...

Father Eusebio Francisco Kino, the 17th-century Jesuit priest who founded 21 missions in what is now Northern Sonora and Southern Arizona, moved a step closer to sainthood. Earlier this month Pope ...

Father Eusebio Kino, was working to establish missions in the Sonoran desert of southern Arizona and northwestern Mexico. I first learned about Kino, a Jesuit, years ago when I visited Mission San ...

In 1691, a priest named Father Kino visited a village in modern-day Arizona, home to Native Americans known as the Tohono O’odham or “desert people.” As one of many priests charged with increasing ...

Certainly Padre Kino's towering presence on southbound Campbell/Kino carries a paternalistic dignity, not to mention craftsmanship that captures every ripple of muscle and wrinkle of robe as this ...

You can see a larger-than-life statue of Father Kino on horseback at the intersection of Kino Boulevard and E 15th Street in Tucson. Kino founded the first mission at what would become San Xavier ...

Ben Clevenger wasn’t all that interested in Father Eusebio Francisco Kino until he visited Mission San Xavier del Bac, which the legendary Jesuit missionary founded in the 17th century near ...

TUCSON – “Following in the footsteps of Father Kino”. It’s that time of the year. Over the next week, thousands of Arizonans and Sonorans will continue a pilgrimage of around 100 ...

Propped up on his deathbed, a 17th century Spanish missionary named Father Kino (Enrique Rocha) looks back on his remarkable life and relives one of his greatest challenges: bringing the teachings ...