Slovenski misijonar Marko Anton Kappus in pokristjanjevanje Nove Španije

This year marks 300 years since the death of Marko Anton Kappus, the first Slovenian missionary to Mexico. The Jesuit order he belonged to played a decisive role in the colonisation of remote areas in the northern and north-western parts of New Mexico, since Christianisation took place simultaneously and in correlation with the expansion of the colonial system.The paper sheds light on the importance the missionaries attributed to one of the fundamental rites of their spiritual mission, i.e. administering the sacrament of baptism. The perspective of Marko Anton Kappus shows the variety, insecurity, turbulence and often contradictory nature of the circumstances the missionaries worked in, the objective and subjective challenges they encountered, their devoted faith as well as their deep conviction that their deeds were justifiable.In this context, it is interesting to look at the content of Kuppus’ letter from 1695 to the Provincial Superior Diego de Almonazir, in which a different, hitherto unknown detail of the attitude of the Slovenian Jesuit towards Eusebio Francisco Kino, a renowned missionary, explorer and cartographer, is outlined