Watch: Relic retrieved from Father Kino's remains
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Carmen Duarte
Reporter
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Anthropologist Rodolfo Castillo Lopez, of Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History, is placing five spools of black ribbon on the skull of Padre Eusebio Francisco Kino inside the crypt in Magdalena de Kino, Sonora.
The ribbon is now a third-relic of would-be saint Padre Kino and will be put on prayer cards to promote his canonization by Tucson’s Kino Heritage Society. The unsealing of the crypt was requested by Bishop Edward J. Weisenburger of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson on behalf of the Kino Heritage Society. Video courtesy of Lupita Teran.
Carmen Duarte
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Tucson group obtains relic from remains of Father Kino as part of sainthood effortFor Star subscribers: 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.
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