ARIZONA DAILY STAR<\/em><\/span><\/p>\nTouring Mission San Xavier del Bac on Wednesday, Claudio Chini said he was filled with a surge of pride and joy, a fitting reaction for a collateral descendant of the Rev. Eusebio Francisco Kino.\u00a0Chini, a sixth generation descendant of Kino’s brother, visited the church known as “The White Dove of the Desert” to attend a Mass and receive a flag of the Tohono O’odham Nation.\u00a0\u2028\u00a0On May 3, 1681. Eusebio Kino- born Eusebio Francesco Chini – landed at Veracruz Mexico. Kino, a Jesuit priest, established 12 colonial missions in what he called Pimer\u00eda Alta – the land straddling the present-day Arizona – Sonora border.\u00a0Chini, Kino’s great – great- great – great-grandnephew, said through an interpreter that he was proud to be in the church and visit the area where his\u00a0 ancestor accomplished so much. Chini, a retired train company director from Italy, is in Arizona for the first time as part or a Cultural Exchange in conjunction with the art exhibit “Homage to Father Kino” – A Cultural Exchange Among the United States, Mexico and Italy.”\u00a0\u2028\u00a0The exhibit is being held at El Centro Cultural, 40 W. Broadway, through Jan. 31.\u00a0\u2028\u00a0Chini said he learned a lot about the history of the church and Kino’s ministry, and was finally able to appreciate\u00a0 firsthand the integration of different people here.\u2028\u00a0Henry Ramon, vice\u00a0 chairman of the Tohono O’odham Nation. called Chini’s visit unbelievable and said that for tribal members it is\u00a0 “something that
\nthey will cherish the rest of their lives.”\u00a0\u2028\u00a0“To me, it’s something way beyond greatness that I will treasure Ramon said.\u2028\u00a0Ramon presented Chini with the Tohono O’odham Nation’s flag. It will be taken to Segno; the Italian village\u00a0 where Klno was born, and placed in a museum there that is dedicated to the late priest. Chini gave to Ramon a book of photographs of the mountains around Segno where Kino’s family still lives.\u2028\u00a0Kino was born in 1645 and arrived in the village of Bac, near What is now Tucson, in 1692. He made plans for a church in 1700, but nothing was\u00a0 completed by the time he died in 1711.\u00a0\u2028\u00a0Jesuit successors built the first church in 1756, a simple adobe structure with a flat roof. Franciscans built the current mission from 1783 to 1797.\u00a0After the presentation and a Mass said by Bishop Manuel\u00a0 D. Moreno, Chini spent time with Tohono O’odham seniors,\u00a0 exchanging wishes for good health and happiness and signing autographs.\u00a0\u2028\u00a0Chini will return to Tucson in June with people from Segno so that they, too, can visit the mission and meet the Tohono O’odham people.
\nContact reporter Eric Swedlund at 629-9412\u2028\u00a0or \u00a0\u2028Swedlund@azstarnet.com<\/p>\n
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