Joseph Gerard was born in France in 1831. At the age of twenty he entered the Congregation of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. Sent to South Africa and ordained a priest in Pietermaritzburg, he worked among the Zulus people. I 1862 he went as a pioneering missionary to Lesotho, and spend the rest of his long life there sharing the message of the Gospel. His active love for the Basutho people, his care for the sick and the weak, and his repute as a man of prayer have earn him an enduring place in the history and memory of that nation. A flourishing local Church bears witness to his life and work. He died in the fullness of years on May 29th 1914, and was declared Blessed on September 15th 1988 by Pope John Paul II.
In 1816, the Church in France, suffering the effects of the French Revolution was in need of revival. Responding to this need, Fr. Eugene de Mazenod called together a group of priests whose main purpose...
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