Louis-Marie de Blignières
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Reverend Louis-Marie de Blignières F.S.V.F | |
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Born | April 11, 1949 Madrid |
Nationality | French |
Known for | Founding the Fraternity of Saint Vincent Ferrer |
Louis-Marie de Blignières, civil name Olivier de Blignières (born April 11, 1949 in Madrid) is a French traditionalist Catholic priest, founder of the Fraternity of Saint Vincent Ferrer.[1]
Biography[]
The son of , he was born in Madrid in 1949. He did primary and secondary in classics at Paris (1956-1967), and higher studies in science at L'école Sainte-Geneviève de Versailles and the Faculté des Sciences d'Orsay (1967-1972). He obtained a master's in Mathematics-Physics and a Certificate of Higher Studies in Astrophysics.
He entered an apostolic Benedictine community in Martigny in Valais in Switzerland (1972-1975) and after completing studies for the priesthood with the Society of Saint Pius X, he was ordained a priest in 1977 by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. After the Society of St. Pius X ordained bishops, resulting in the pronouncement of sentences of excommunication on its leadership, he dissociated himself with them and came to hold the Thesis of Cassiciacum. He later distanced himself from Michel-Louis Guérard des Lauriers and entered the full communion of the Catholic Church.
He gave a course in Thomist spirituality in Paris and preached retreats on the Rosary. In 1979, he founded the Fraternity of Saint Vincent Ferrer at Chémeré-le-Roi in Mayenne. He was the community's prior until 2011.
In 2003, he defended a doctoral thesis entitled La quête de la Ratio Entis : un itinéraire thomasien[2] à l'Université Paris-Sorbonne. The director of his thesis was .
He is the author of the books Les fins dernières and other books. He leads the training seminars for students and young professionals, (Café-Caté), in the Latin Quarter of Paris.
Works[]
- Blignières, Louis-Marie de (1994). Les fins dernières. Éditions Dominique Martin Morin. ISBN 9782856521960.
- Blignières, Louis-Marie de (2008). Le mystère de l'Être. L'approche thomiste de Guérard des Lauriers. Preface by Serge-Thomas Bonino. Paris: J. Vrin.
- Blignières, Louis-Marie de (2011). De Marie à la Trinité - méditations sur les mystères du Rosaire. Preface by Henri Brincard. Poitiers: Éditions Dominique Martin Morin. ISBN 978-2-85652-320-9.
See also[]
- Fraternity of Saint Vincent Ferrer
- Catholic traditionalism
References[]
- ^ Senèze, Nicolas (2008). La crise intégriste: Vingt ans après le schisme de Mgr Lefebvre. Bayard. p. 129. ISBN 978-2-227-47718-6.
- ^ Voir Catalogue SUDOC
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- French traditionalist Catholics
- 1949 births
- Living people
- French Roman Catholic priests
- 20th-century French Catholic theologians
- Traditionalist Catholic priests