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Apologia pro Marcel Lefebvre: Part One 1905 - 1976 Paperback – January 1, 1979

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  • Paperback: 461 pages
  • Publisher: Angelus Press; Second Edition edition (January 1, 1979)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0935952004
  • ISBN-13: 978-0935952001
  • Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 1.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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By Jean-Francois Virey on August 24, 2003
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Called by Paul H. Hallett of the National Catholic Register «a definitive history of the Lefebvre case down through 1976», *Apologia Pro Marcel Lefebvre* is the first of a three-volume series covering the Archbishop's life from 1970 to 1982.
Having devoted a mere ten pages to Marcel Lefebvre's exemplary life from his birth in Tourcoing, France in 1905 to his would be retirement from public life in 1968, Michael Davies moves on to what is the real focus of the book: the so-called «Econe affair» and the ensuing conflict between Mgr Lefebvre and the Vatican.
In 1970, Mgr Lefebvre founded the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) and its seminary at Econe, Switzerland, with full canonical approval (contrary to later claims that it was a «wildcat seminary.») In the post conciliar climate, however, this seminary was perceived by the liberals as a threat to their on-going dogmatic and liturgical revolution, because the Archbishop was forming priests along pre-Vatican II lines, trained to say the Tridentine Mass and fully cognizant of the tradition.
A Visitation was ordered by the Commission of Cardinals in 1974, hoping to find something wrong with the seminary. The report however was full of praise for the work being done at Econe. Only the leaking of a document called the «Declaration» provided any grounds for action against the SSPX: originally written for the seminarians and not intended in any way as a rebellious manifesto, it expressed Marcel Lefebvre's rejection of «the Rome of Neo-Modernist and Neo-Protestant tendencies», as evinced in the Visitors' heretical statements in favour of a married clergy and against the immutability of Truth and the Resurrection of Christ.
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Michael Treharne Davies (1936- 2004) was a British traditionalist Catholic writer, who from 1992 to 2004 was the President of the international Traditionalist organisation Foederatio Internationalis Una Voce. He wrote other books/booklets such as Apologia Pro Marcel Lefebvre: Volume One, Archbishop Lefebvre & Religious Liberty, Pope Paul's New Mass, I Am With You Always: The Divine Constitution and Indefectibility of the Catholic Church, Liturgical Shipwreck: 28 Years of the New Mass, etc. [There is a third volume to this series, but Amazon doesn't presently have a listing for it.]

He wrote in the Introduction to this 1983 book, "The first volume... took the story ... up to the end of 1976. I had hoped to conclude the account in this volume, but the amount of material I felt it necessary to include was such that it could cover only three more years, taking the story to the end of 1979... I had also hoped... to be able to give details of an agreement between the Pope and the Archbishop in this volume. Alas, no final agreement has yet been reached, but negotiations are still continuing.
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Davies provides well cited history of the Archbishop's plight against the forces of Vatican II. Once you read this defense of Archbishop Lefebvre written in the late 70s, you can judge for yourself whether the Archbishop's views were prescient. Well worth the small amount of money to read the heroic struggle of the Archbishop.
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