Father Kieran McCarty was on the team that cracked the case of the missing bones of Father Eusebio Kino, the roving Italian Jesuit who founded the chain of 24 missions McCarty loved so much, including Tucson's San Xavier in 1700. (Kino didn't build the present church, but he laid the foundation of an earlier church nearby.) Kino died in 1711, and his burial place was long a mystery. After intense sleuthing, an international team of archaeologists uncovered his skeleton in Magdalena, Sonora, in 1966.Link (here) to the full article.
Sketch of Fr. Eusebio Kino, S.J.
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