(Older Spanish maps had correctly charted the geography ... Internet https://www.smrc-missiontours.com, leads Father Kino mission tours in the spring and fall. Upcoming trips are scheduled for ...

He founded the San Xavier del Bac mission ... 32 maps of the region that became widely used. He died in 1711 in Magdalena in Sonora, Mexico. According to his official biography, Father Kino ...

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 ...

In an advertisement that year for the new subdivision, he would explain his street name concept: “Each street is called a ‘paseo’, the Spanish word for trail or avenue. All ...

Farther to the north, Father Kino would later establish an even larger mission named for St. Francis Xavier at the Pima village of Bac. He finished the expansion of his Santa Cruz territory with a ...

Father Kino a 17thcentury Jesuit missionary ... agricultural skills as well as building missions and spreading Christianity An explorer astronomer and map maker Father Kino surmounted numerous ...

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 ...