Father Eusebio Francisco Kino, a Jesuit missionary, explorer and cartographer, founded 21 missions in the Pimería Alta – what is now Northern Sonora and Southern Arizona.
Carmen Duarte The mausoleum crypt holding Padre Eusebio Francisco Kino’s remains in Magdalena de Kino, Sonora was opened Wednesday so that a Tucson organization promoting Kino’s canonization could obtain a relic.
The crypt was opened for the Kino Heritage Society to obtain what is called a third-class relic from Kino who is a candidate for sainthood. A third-class relic is an object that has touched a body part of a saint or would-be saint, or a possession that a saint or would-be saint owned, according to Vatican rules.
Adolf is a board member of the Kino Heritage Society and member of the board of directors of the Southwest Mission Research Center, which promotes borderland history and also sponsors tours in Arizona and Sonora of Kino missions. "Gathering a third-class relic from Kino's crypt is most appropriate now that the good padre has been declared 'venerable'", said Rev. Christopher Corbally, a Jesuit Vatican astronomer and heritage society board member, in regards to Kino's candidacy for sainthood. "Relics of saints help us recall that these holy people were as real as ourselves, they walked our walk, and so can be an inspiration to our own journey," said Corbally.
The society would not disclose what it paid the institute for the costs to obtain the relic. The money came from a trust fund established by the late Jesuit Rev. Charles W. Polzer, a Kino historian and anthropologist, to support events promoting and celebrating the canonization process of Kino.
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