Lucien Louis Bunel, in religion Father Jacques of Jesus, was born in Barentin (France) on January 29, 1900 and died in Linz (Austria) on 2^nd of June, 1945.

At a very early age, Lucien Bunel decided to become a priest. He entered the minor seminary of Rouen, where his industriousness was appreciated but not his character. He was ordained a priest on 1^st of July, 1925. He wished to enter the Carmelite Order, but the Archbishop of Rouen would not give his consent. Only in 1931 was Lucien Bunel able to enter the novitiate of the monastery of the Lille Discalced Carmelites, where he took the name of Br Jacques of Jesus.

In 1934, at the request of his provincial, he founded and directed the Little College of St Therese of the Child Jesus in Avon, in a part of the Carmelite monastery. He was a teacher of classical studies and a supervisor: the pupils sometimes called him "The Saint".

During the Second World War, he quickly engaged in the Resistance, while continuing his activity at the Avon college. He offered school protection to those who wanted to avoid compulsory labour service in Nazi Germany. He allowed Lucien Weil, a natural science teacher, who had been forbidden to teach because he was Jewish, to give some lectures at the Little College. Father Jacques also welcomed three Jewish children, Hans-Helmut Michel, Jacques Halpern and Maurice Schlosser, under the false identities of Bonnet, Dupré and Sabatier. Although his arrest on January 15, 1944 was directly linked to the three Jewish children following a complaint, it was above all his involvement in the Resistance that led to his final deportation to Gusen in Austria.

Taking care of the sick and the infirmary, celebrating Mass in the camp and every day offering St. Therese to the prisoners, he constantly cared for others and particularly the weakest. While the SS and guards tried to destroy it, Father Jacques was "reconciling war with mankind." Eventually he fell ill, but still found the strength, after the liberation of the camp, to represent the French at the meetings of the International Committee of Deportees. He died of exhaustion in Linz on 2^nd of June 1945. His body was transferred to the Carmelite cemetery in Avon.

He is honoured at Yad Vashem as one of the Righteous Among the Nations. On June 9, 1985 he was posthumously awarded the "Righteous Among the Nations" medal from the State of Israel.