Eusebius Kino (Catholic Encyclopedia article)
Anthony Huonder · 1913
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Eusebius Kino, born Kuhn in the Tyrol in 1644, was a Jesuit missionary, mathematician, and mapmaker whose work opened up the American Southwest. After teaching mathematics at Ingolstadt, he reached Mexico in 1680 and founded the mission of Lower California. Working from 1687 in Sonora, he entered Upper Pimeria and won his first convert at Nuestra Señora de los Dolores. He crossed the Rio Colorado on a bold exploring voyage that proved California was a peninsula reached by an overland route.
His reports and maps gave Europe its first exact knowledge of a vast, little-known country. He crossed it time and again, covering more than twenty thousand miles by the account of Clavigero. He built missions, learned the ways of the native peoples, and drew the celebrated map of California printed in 1702. It notes the claim that rebel Indians shot him on 15 March 1711.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Anthony Huonder |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1913 |
| COLLECTION | REFERENCE |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 3 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | New Advent — Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) |