AMEN AND AMEN AND AMEN.
The best of the Spanish voyagers to the New World, brought not only a missionary zeal, but the accoutrements of Western thought and development.
Father Kino(an Italian) brought the Gospel, knowledge of building beautiful edifices, animal husbandry, seeds for planting and general education and more.
Father Kino’s name was really Chino, but because in Spanish that means “Chinese” (and the “ch” is pronounced differently than in Italian), he used the Kino spelling in the Spanish-speaking world. “Quino” would have worked too, I suppose.