What is Joseph Gérard?
{{Infobox saint |name = Blessed Joseph Gérard |birth_date = {{birth date|1831|3|12|mf=y}} |death_date = {{death date and age|1914|5|29|1831|3|12|mf=y}} |feast_day = May 29 |venerated_in = [[Roman Catholic Church]] |image = |imagesize = |caption = |birth_place = [[Bouxières-aux-Chênes]], France |death_place = [[Roma, Lesotho]] |titles = |beatified_date = September 15, 1988 |beatified_place= [[Maseru]] |beatified_by = [[John Paul II]] |canonized_date = |canonized_place= |canonized_by = |attributes = |patronage = |major_shrine = |suppressed_date= |issues = }} '''Blessed Joseph Gérard''', [[Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate|OMI]] (March 12, 1831 – May 29, 1914)<ref name=omi>{{cite web|url=http://www.omi.org.za/lesotho/bgerard07.html|title=Father Joseph Gerard, the Apostle of Basotho|work=Oblates of Mary Immaculate in Southern Africa|access-date=10 November 2016}}</ref> was a [[France|French]] [[Roman Catholic Church|Catholic]] missionary. Gérard mostly worked among the [[Basotho]] people of modern-day [[Lesotho]] and the [[Free State]] province of [[South Africa]]. Gérard was [[beatification|beatified]] by [[Pope John Paul II]] on September 15, 1988.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://w2.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/homilies/1988/documents/hf_jp-ii_hom_19880915_maseru.html|title=Beatification of father Joseph Gerard|work=Libreria Editrice Vaticana|date=15 September 1988|access-date=10 November 2016}}</ref> His [[Calendar of saints|feast day]] is on May 29. ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Gerard, Joseph}} [[Category:1831 births]] [[Category:1914 deaths]] [[Category:Christian saints]] [[Category:French Roman Catholic priests]] [[Category:Roman Catholic missionaries]] [[Category:People from Meurthe-et-Moselle]]