BajaNomad

Identify this person

academicanarchist - 9-3-2004 at 05:18 AM

These are the remains of a famous missionary, buried in another part of northern Mexico. However, he was linked to the history of Baja California.

clue

academicanarchist - 9-3-2004 at 05:26 AM

This is the interior of a fairly well known mission, not in Baja California, established by the missionary. Identify the mission. There is a clue to the name of the mission in the photo.

academicanarchist - 9-3-2004 at 05:27 AM


academicanarchist - 9-3-2004 at 05:39 AM


Clues

academicanarchist - 9-4-2004 at 06:12 AM

I will give you two clues. This Jesuit missionary was born in thee Tyrol region in the Italian Alps in the mid-17th century. He died in 1711, but not in Baja California.

Mexitron - 9-4-2004 at 08:48 AM

Salvaterra? Sounds more like a Spanish name though....???

Good guess, but not correct.

academicanarchist - 9-4-2004 at 08:51 AM

Again, a good guess, but not correct. The missionary was not in Baja California when he died, but he died on the frontier, of natural causes.

elizabeth - 9-4-2004 at 10:22 AM

Padre Eusabio Francisco Kino, currently residing in Magdalena, Sonora.

That is correct

academicanarchist - 9-4-2004 at 10:29 AM

Well done. Kino was in Baja California in the 1680s, and established San Bruno mission located north of Loreto and not too far from Londo.

The Mission

academicanarchist - 9-4-2004 at 10:43 AM

Elizabeth did not identify the mission, but I will give it to you. It is San Francisco Xavier del Bac, located just south of Tucson. It was one of the missions established by Kino.

Mexitron - 9-4-2004 at 11:42 AM

I knew that!:lol:

Thanks for the post AA-keep em coming.