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Wednesday of the 14th Week in Ordinary Time Saint of the Day: St. Jeanne-Marie Kerguin, 1864-1900; born in France to a peasant family; joined the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary in 1887; she was assigned first to Paris, then to Carthage in Northern Africa; she encountered health problems and was sent to Rome to recover; there she answered the call of her Order to work as a missionary; she arrived in China in 1899, and was hospitalized with typhus; she was arrested during the Boxer Rebellion, and was beheaded in China Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/8/26 Gospel: Matthew 10:1-7