[1] She helped Allied soldiers and French resistance fighters during World War II, and in 1946, she established the Federation of the Augustinian monasteries.

At the age of twenty, she joined with the Association of the Children of Mary Immaculate in serving the poor.

[1] Beauvais fell ill the following year with typhoid fever[2] 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.

[1] She helped Allied soldiers and French resistance fighters during World War II by sheltering them at the hospital and aiding their escape.