[MANUSCRIPT JESUIT PROFESSION OF FAITH, WRITTEN AND SIGNED BY FATHER EUSEBIO KINO]

Kino, Eusebio Francisco

Verlag: San Bruno, Baja California, 1684

[1]p., with docketing on verso, approximately 10 x 7¾ inches. Previously folded sheet, slightly cropped at right edge. Very faint scattered foxing. Very good. A quite rare and early manuscript document signed by and in the hand of Jesuit missionary Eusebio Francisco Kino, dating to his first year in Spanish America. Kino (1645-1711) began his career in Baja California in 1683, and went on to pioneer European settlement in what is now southern Arizona. His first mission was San Bruno in southern Baja California, which he founded in 1683. After eight months of complete isolation from European society, a relief ship finally arrived on Aug. 10, 1684, bearing another Jesuit missionary, Jean-Baptiste Copart, as well as supplies, letters, and twenty additional men. Five days later, Copart led Kino in his formal profession of faith, the vows which made him a true Jesuit. This document, written entirely in Latin, is written under Father Copart's authority by Kino, transcribing his vows, with his signature at bottom right. It discusses the Jesuit vows of poverty and obedience (pauperta and obedientia), and concludes "Sancti Brunonis Insularum Californiarum," with the date spelled out in Latin. It is docketed on verso: "Profes'n del P. Eusebio Fran'co Kino 1684." Any manuscript material by Father Kino is extremely rare on the market. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers WRCAM53517

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Titel: [MANUSCRIPT JESUIT PROFESSION OF FAITH, ...
Verlag: San Bruno, Baja California
Erscheinungsdatum: 1684