Like making wine, achieving something amazing as a Christian can take years to achieve, as the example of Yvonne Beauvais of France showed, the Rev. Christopher Ankley said.

“The soil of our hearts has to be right for the seed of God’s Word to take root and grow. It’s only through our connectedness to God that we can withstand the difficulties of the seasons,” Ankley said in the St. Joseph Catholic Church in Battle Creek, Michigan, church bulletin.

Beauvais was born in 1901. She became Mother Yvonne Aimee of Jesus at the Monastery of Malestroit in Brittany. Early in life she entrusted herself to Our Lord, saying, “Jesus, I give myself to you completely, make me a saint, a great saint, a very great saint.,” Ankley wrote in the bulletin.

She suffered an attack and was tortured. During World War II she hid French soldiers in the monastery.

A small prayer inspired her, leading her to have cards and medals made with it on them, “O Jesus, King of Love, I trust in your merciful goodness.” Pope St. John XXIII even gave them away, the bulletin reported.

When she died in 1951, her full religious name was Mother Yvonne Aimee of Jesus.

“As Christians each one of us can add that to our name – of Jesus. It means He is our cornerstone. And so we make our requests known to Jesus, we give to Him all our worries, we give to Him all our fears, we give to Him all our cares, and we give to Him all of our sins. And in return, maybe even after many seasons, he makes us his saints, his very great saints, which means he gives us His Heaven,” Ankley said, the bulletin reported.