11. Perhaps the most famous of the European explorers in Arizona, which Jesuit priest established over twenty missions, but apparently no movie theatres, while creating maps that would be used for over a century?
From Quiz Arizona: In the Beginning
Answer:
Padre Kino
Father Eusebio Francisco Kino, known as Padre Kino, was a Jesuit priest who was born in Tyrolean Italy and educated in Austria and Germany. He was a true Renaissance man - a cartographer, mathematician, astronomer, farmer, rancher, diplomat, linguist and a deeply religious and humane man. Padre Kino was 40 years old when he arrived in the area of northern Mexico and southern Arizona in 1687 to work as a missionary, and over the next 24 years, he would explore most of the region while establishing over 20 missions. The detailed maps he made of the region were used for over a century, and he was the first person to document that Baja California was a peninsula, not an island as the Spanish believed. His travels in Arizona took him at least as far north as Casa Grande (about 50 miles/80 km south of Phoenix), where he became the first non-native to view the Casa Grande ruins. Padre Kino died from illness in 1711 in Magdalena, Mexico (about 60 miles/97 km south of Nogales, a city on the Arizona/Mexico border); the chapel that contained his grave had been destroyed over the years, but his grave was rediscovered in the 1960s and a memorial was built there.
Although Padre Kino established famous missions such as San Xavier del Bac and San José de Tumacácori, the current buildings at these sites were actually constructed by Franciscans after his death. The beautiful San Xavier del Bac south of Tucson, for example, was built in the late 17th century and is still a functioning Catholic church. Apparently, none of the original buildings from Padre Kino's time still exist; they were destroyed (mainly due to attacks by Apaches) or fell into disrepair after the Jesuits were expelled from the area in 1767.