Kino Symposium

The Kino Heritage Society cordially invites you to attend a symposium. Join us for this special presentation on the life and times of the illustrious Padre Eusebio Francisco Kino.  

Keynote Speaker:

“Finding Father Kino on the Trail between History and Hagiography”- Michael Brescia, Ph.D.

Dr. Michael M. Brescia is Head of Research and Curator of Ethnohistory in the Arizona State Museum, with faculty affiliations in the Department of History, James E. Rogers College of Law, Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies, and the Southwest Center. He teaches a wide range of courses at the UA, such as Mexican history, Comparative History of North America, World History, and historical research methods. Michael is the co-author of two books that examine the broader historical forces that have shaped our continent from Pre-Columbian times to the present: the fourth edition of Mexico and the United States: Ambivalent Vistas (with W. Dirk Raat, University of Georgia Press, 2010), and North America: An Introduction (with John C. Super, University of Toronto Press, 2009). His research, teaching, and public outreach have attracted support over the years from various international and national groups and agencies, including, for example, the Fulbright Scholars Program (Canada and Mexico), Autry Museum of the American West (Los Angeles, Calif.), T.C. Beirne School of Law at the University of Queensland (Australia), El Colegio de San Luis (Mexico), and the Southwestern Mission Research Center (Tucson), among others.

Featured Speaker:

“Padre Kino: Apostle on Horseback”- Fr. Greg Adolf 

Fr. Greg Adolf is the pastor of St. Andrew the Apostle Catholic Church in Sierra Vista and a member of the Kino Heritage Society.  He graduated in 1970 from the University of Notre Dame and from the Lutheran School of Theology-Chicago in 1974 and was ordained to the Lutheran ministry. In 1991, he was ordained to the Priesthood for the Diocese of Tucson.  Fr. Greg as a member of the Southwest Mission Research Center (SMRC) has led tours of Padre Kino’s missions in Sonora for the past 30 years. He is active with KHS and the Diocese of Tucson in promoting the Cause of Padre Kino’s Canonization and gives presentations throughout Arizona to bring awareness of Padre Kino and his place in our region’s history.


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