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Author:
Colt, Paul,.
Title:
Vaquero Padre / Paul Colt.
Edition:
First edition.
Publisher:
Five Stara part of Gale, a Cengage Company,
Copyright Date:
2022
Description:
291 pages ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Kino, Eusebio Francisco,--1644-1711--Fiction.
Missionaries--Fiction.
Fictional Work.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Novels.
Summary:
"Eusebio Francisco Kino, missionary, mathematician, astronomer, navigator, cartographer, explorer, rancher, diplomat, instrument of God's work, and candidate for sainthood. Imagine a seventeenth-century man with these talents and abilities, born to a New World by near-death experience. You have the premise for an epic life journey of faith and discovery. It happened. In 1663 eighteen-year-old Eusebio Kino survives fatal illness he credits to the intercession of his patron, Saint Francis Xavier. He vows to follow his patron's missionary footsteps to China. Following ordination, Padre Kino's path to mission takes a sharp turn west, to New Spain. Over the next thirty years, Padre Kino extended the frontier of Christendom west, establishing mission rancheria from the "island" of California to Pimeria Alta in present-day Sonora Mexico and Southern Arizona. He introduced cattle ranching and cultivation of wheat to the southwest. In fulfilling his life purpose, Padre Kino enriched the lives of those he served while his explorations changed the face of a continent. Vaquero Padre is Eusebio Kino's story, as he might have told it"-- Provided by publisher.
ISBN:
1432894692
9781432894696
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1303569253
LCCN:
2022010850
Locations:
WMPC185 -- Marcus Public Library (Marcus)
WWPC305 -- Milford Memorial Library (Milford)
KWPE446 -- Mount Pleasant Public Library (Mount Pleasant)

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