Blessed Joseph Gérard OMI (March 12 1831-May 29 1914) was a French Catholic missionary who chiefly worked among the Basotho people of modern day Lesotho and the Free State province of South Africa. He was born in Bouxières-aux-Chênes in the Diocese of Nancy and received his religious training from the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate whom he joined at the age of twenty.
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