MEXICO, 1987, tercentenary of Kino's exploration of the Pimeria Alta, Scott 1474, and its FDI cancel
The image of Fr. Kino is from a soft pencil sketch by Frances O'Brien, in preparation for her oil painting now preserved at the Arizona Historical Society, Tucson, Arizona.
Kino (the German form of the Italian Chini) combined his missionary and educational outreach to the natives with extensive exploration and cartography. By walking from New Mexico to the Pacific coast he discovered among other things that Baja California was not an island as was generally thought in Europe at the time. Interestingly two other Jesuits involved in this same discovery, Marcus Antonius Kappus and Ferdinand Konšcak, are also honored on stamps for precisely that reason. Arizona placed Kino's statue, one of two permitted to each state, in Statuary Hall of the Capitol.
VATICAN CITY, 2011, to honor the 300th anniversary of Kino's death, and its FDI cancel, Scott 1463.
ITALY, 2011, special cancel to honor the 300th anniversary of Kino's death, from Taio where he was baptized
and the 20th anniversary of his monument.
The Postal History Foundation of Tucson, Arizona hosted the Kino Heritage Society's first day issuance of its private stamp featuring Frances O'Brien's soft pencil sketch of Kino, and two envelope cachets covers (below). These commemorate the 300th anniversary of Kino's death on March 15, 1711. The United States Postal Service provided a specially designed cancel (above).
The equestrian statue on the first cover stands alongside Kino Boulevard; the bas-relief is on the outside of the city hall.Kino founded the San Xavier del Bac Mission, about 8 miles south of Tucson, Arizona, in 1692 and dedicated it to St. Francis Xavier, his patron and confrère in the Society of Jesus. "Bac" means "where a stream emerges." Kino laid the foundation for the original church in 1700, and a number of Jesuits followed him in ministering to the people there until Charles III expelled the Jesuits from his Spanish possessions in 1767. The church was then given to the Franciscans, but was destroyed by Indians shortly thereafter. Credit for the mission pictured on the stamp above must be given to the Franciscan Fathers Juan Bautista Velderrain and Juan Bautista Llorenz who put up this magnificent mission in 1783 about two miles from its original location.
UNITES STATES OF AMERICA, 1997, show cancel featuring Kino on horseback
ITALY, 2008, special cancel from a stamp show in Taio, Trento Province
1938, Poster Stamp No. 58 "Let's Get Associated: Mission San Xavier del Bac 1700" from
Associated Stamps of the West, Tide Water Associated Oil Co., Tulsa, OK
