We hope to see you at our meeting Saturday, November 7, 2026
Lunch: 12:00pm
Presentation: 1:00pm
PROGRAM:
Finding Padre Kino’s Grave: Lost But Never Forgotten
Pioneer Jesuit missionary Eusebio Francisco Kino (1645-1711), proclaimed a national hero by the federal government of Mexico, was an explorer and famous mapmaker who worked in today’s Baja California, Sonora and Arizona. Kino was the first European to live among the O’odham people of our borderland region where he worked the last 24 years of his life. Kino introduced European culture and technology to the O’odham and defended them against the abuses of Spanish Colonial Empire. In May 1996, an international team that included archeologists and historians from Mexico’s Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH) and the University of Arizona, discovered Kino’s lost grave along with his skeletal remains in Magdalena, Sonora. The team was aided by many independent historians and other lovers of history from both Mexico and the United States including past members of the Tucson Corral of Westerners. Join Mark in his presentation about the compelling history of the discovery of Padre Kino’s grave that is now protected as a national monument of Mexico.
PRESENTER:
Mark O’Hare
Mark O’Hare is a lawyer and the editor of the Kino Historical Society’s website at padrekino.com. In celebration of this year’s 60th anniversary of finding Kino’s grave, Mark wrote a series of blogs about the discovery on Facebook at facebook.com/eusebio.kino.56. Mark is a graduate of the University of Arizona where he received his law degree and his undergraduate degree in Anthropology. He is a member of the Tucson Corral of Westerners.
LOCATION: Tucson Medical Center’s Marshall Conference Center – 5301 E Grant Road 85712 (enter on the east side of TMC)
MEAL COST: $12 per person.
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