Yvonne Beauvais (; July 16, 1901 – February 3, 1951) was a French

Augustinian nun Augustinian nuns are the most ancient and continuous segment of the Roman Catholic Augustinian religious order under the canons of contemporary historical method. The Augustinian nuns, named after Saint Augustine of Hippo (died AD 430), are sever ...

. She took the name Mother Yvonne-Aimée of Jesus. She helped Allied soldiers and French resistance fighters during

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, and in 1946, she established the Federation of the Augustinian monasteries.

Biography

Beauvais was born in

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in the

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department. Her father died when she was three and she went to stay with her maternal grandmother. She returned to live with her mother the following year, staying at boarding schools where her mother was director. At the age of twenty, she joined with the Association of the Children of Mary Immaculate in serving the poor. Beauvais fell ill the following year with

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and was treated at a small hospital at Malestroit run by the Augustinian Sisters of Mercy. In March 1927, she entered the convent at Malestroit as a postulant, and in September 1931 made her perpetual vows. In 1935, she was elected mother superior for the community. She helped Allied soldiers and French resistance fighters during

by sheltering them at the hospital and aiding their escape. She is said to have disguised some Allied airmen as nuns. She was awarded the French

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by General

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. In 1946, she established the Federation of the Augustinian monasteries and became its first Superior General. In early 1951, she was planning to visit nuns of the order in Natal, South Africa. However, she died in February before her departure at the age of 49 from a

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in Malestroit.

Apparition

Beauvais reported that on August 17, 1922, while staying at the monastery of the Augustinian Canonesses of the Mercy of Jesus at Malestroit. Jesus appeared to her saying, "Morning and evening say, O Jesus, King of Love, I put my trust in Thy Merciful Goodness."The Confraternity of Jesus, King of Love", Silverstream Priory
/ref> At first, the short invocation spread by word of mouth. In 1932 the Bishop of Vannes, France, approved the invocation for his diocese.

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extended it to the universal Church.

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Apparition

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