Archbishop lefebvre cardinal ratzinger biography

Archbishop Lefebvre is gone to receive his well-deserved crown in heaven. In the early hours of Monday morning, March 25, he died quietly in the hospital of Martigny, in the Canton of the Valais near Econe in Switzerland, comforted with the last Sacraments.

There are no words to express my homage and filial gratitude to this giant figure of the twentieth century.

Having had the joy and privilege of receiving the priesthood from his holy hands, I feel it now a grateful duty to write for you some thoughts about his life.

I have used for this effect the many notes taken during the composition of the historical part of a booklet written under his direction in by the late Father Denis Marchal and myself.

As many of you know well his biography after the foundation of the Society of Saint Pius X, I would like to concentrate on what we can call his "hidden yea