The Father Kino Story: Padre on Horseback - DVD

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This is a true account of the legendary 'Padre On Horseback', Father Eusebio Francisco Kino, a Jesuit missionary who was dedicated to helping the lives of the natives of New Spain. An explorer, builder of missions. Kino opened the centuries-old irrigation canals, long abandoned by the Hohokam indians, bringing water to the parched desert lands, making possible^-the growing of grain and vegetables for the natives and their animals.

Kino established 24 missions, seven of which are in the state of Arizona, A statue of Father Kino now stands in our nation's capitol Rotunda,

Kino was also a noted cartographer, drawing maps of the areas he traveled. He was the first to prove that Baja was not an island, as Sir Francis Drake claimed, but a peninsula.

While on the Pacific shore Kino found a sea shell and he carried it with him on all his journeys...and it became the key to his greatest discovery.

Stars:

Richard Egan, Ricardo Montalban, Cesar Romero, Victor Jory, John Ireland, Michael Ahsara, John -Russell, Stephen McNally, Keenan Wynn, Anthony Caruso, Joe Campannela, Aldo Ray, Rory Calhoun, Henry Brandon, and the voice of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen

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