Fray eusebio kino biography of mahatma gandhi

Eusebio Francisco Kino (b. 10 August 1645; d. 15 March 1711), Jesuit missionary and explorer of northwestern New Spain. A native of Segno, near Trent, in the Italian Tyrol, educated in Austria and Germany, Kino was among the foreign-born Jesuit missionaries permitted by the Spanish crown under quota to serve in the Spanish Indies.

He excelled in mathematics, astronomy, and cartography, and could have had a university chair in Europe. Instead, he put these skills to good use during a thirty-year career in New Spain, first as royal cosmographer of Admiral Isidro de Atondo's failed effort to occupy Baja California in the mid-1680s and then as the pioneer missionary of Pimería Alta (present-day northern Sonora and southern Arizona), capstone of the Jesuits' northwest missionary empire.

An irrepressible expansionist, Kino had a restless nature better suited to exploration and first contact with the Pimas and Pápagos (Tohono O'Odam) than for ever