Joseph Gérard

Blessed Joseph Gérard, OMI (March 12, 1831 – May 29, 1914) was a French Catholic missionary. 
Gérard mostly worked among the Basotho people of modern-day Lesotho and the Free State province of South Africa.
Gérard was beatified by Pope John Paul II on September 15, 1988. His feast day is on May 29.