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Show OPENING OF ORTEGA'S EULOGY OF KINO. 529 tercession of St. Francis Xavier at the Throne of Grace, he inserted that saint's name in his own, which thus became in Spanish Eusebio Francisco Kino. 2 • Ortega's Breve Elogio opens as follows, p. 328, literally translated: " He [ Kino] was native of the City of Trento [ Trent, in Tyrolese Austria], a near relative of Father Martin Martini, a distinguished operator of our company and Apostolic missionary of the Empire of Grand China, whose footsteps he [ Kino] followed gloriously in this North America. He so applied himself to the study of mathematics, and improved himself in such manner with his great mind, that the most serene Duke of Bavaria, with his son Maximilian, glorious progenitor of the defunct emperor Carlos VII., visiting the college of Ynglostat [ Ingolstadt], his electoral Highness [ the Duke] desired to employ him [ Kino] in a chair of this most useful science in that so celebrated university; he renounced this honorable preferment, which only served him to have the more to sacrifice to God, seeking to pass to the Indies, moved by his ardent zeal of souls, and succeeding in this soon afterward: for he esteemed rather the painful fatigues, dedicating himself to the conversion of the infidels, than the literary shining of his lively genius in the most elevated chairs. Having arrived in Mexico on the occasion of a celebrated comet [ Newton's, 1680], which in those times occupied the curiosity and application of the mathematician, he discovered almost without advertising it that he penetrated the most delicate points of that most noble faculty. " Rather directing soon afterward all his vigilance to the greater glory of God, and of souls as well, he extended his ardent apostolic zeal into California, whose reduction, in the character of Superior of Ours he undertook; he labored there gloriously more than a year and a half with not a few conver- |