Saint of the Day: St. Jeanne-Marie Kerguin, 1864-1900; born in France to a poor peasant family; joined the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary in 1867; assigned first to Parish, then to Carthage in Northern Africa; went to China in 1899, and was executed in a crackdown on foreign missionaries during the Boxer Rebellion
Saint of the Day: St. Jeanne-Marie Kerguin, 1864-1900; born in France to a poor peasant family; joined the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary in 1867; assigned first to Parish, then to Carthage in Northern Africa; went to China in 1899, and was executed in a crackdown on foreign missionaries during the Boxer Rebellion