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Show MISSIONS FOUNDED BY KINO. 523 abound in his writing, in orderly sequence and with precision; so do names of persons and places. Barring theological bias, we can take our Ortega for prime authority regarding the facts of Kino's life. The following notice is compiled mainly from this source. 1 The copy of the book I handle is in good 1 Ortega has it, in his Breve Elogio del Padre Kino, forming chap, xvi of Book ii of his work, p. 330, that the following missions of Pimeria were due to this missionary: ( 1) Mission de los Dolores: with two pueblos de visita. ( 2) Mission de San Ignacio: with two pueblos de visita. ( 3) Mission de Tubutamo: with nine pueblos de visita. ( 4) Mission de Cabotca: which included very many persons. ( 5) Mission de Santa Maria Suamca: which, though it had few at headquarters, counted many persons in the pueblos de visita, which extended to the Sobaypuris. ( 6) Mission de Guevevi: which included no fewer Indians in their rancherias than Spaniards in their outposts. ( 7) Mission de San Xavier del Bac: very populous among them all. " Besides these missions, whose beginning was due to Father Kino, his indefatigable charity is witnessed in all those rancherias there are on the south to the Serys, on the northwest from the shores of Caborca to the head of the Gulf, on the northeast to the Rio Gila; which surely would be well occupied by four to six missionaries. Yet eight other missionaries would have field enough for their zeal in the pueblos which Father Kino visited, domesticated, fostered, and brought to embrace our holy religion, on the banks of the Gila and Colorado, being those of the Pimas, Opas, Cocomaricopas, Yumas, and Qui-quimas." Thus far Ortega, summing results of Father Kino's ministry. |