Michel-Louis Guérard des Lauriers
His Excellency Michel-Louis Guérard des Lauriers | |
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| Ordination | 29 July 1931 |
| Consecration | 7 May 1981 by Ngô Đình Thục |
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| Born | 25 October 1898 France |
| Died | 27 February 1988 (aged 89) Cosne-sur-Loire, France |
| Buried | Raveau, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Profession | Theologian |
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Michel-Louis Guérard des Lauriers (25 October 1898 – 27 February 1988) was a French Dominican theologian who was illicitly made a bishop by Ngo Dinh Thuc and consequently excommunicated from the Catholic Church. He embraced ideas such as sedevacantism and sedeprivationism which are regarded as schismatic by the Catholic Church.[1]
Biography
[edit]Michel-Louis Guérard des Lauriers was born near Paris, France, on 25 October 1898.[2]
In 1921, he entered the Scuola Normale Superiore. He studied for two years in Rome, with Professor Tullio Levi-Civita.[2]
In 1925, he entered the Order of Preachers.[2] He entered the Dominican novitiate of Amiens in 1927. He made his profession in 1930.[2]
He was a normalien and agrégé in mathematics.[3]
Priesthood
[edit]On 29 July 1931, des Lauriers was ordained a priest.[4]
In 1933, he became a professor of philosophy at the Dominican school of theology Le Saulchoir, in Belgium. In 1940, he received a doctorate in mathematics with thesis Sur les systèmes différentiels du second ordre qui admettent un groupe continu fini de transformations.[5]
Under Pope Pius XII, he served as a professor at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome.[6]
In 1979, worried about Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and a possible deal with the Vatican among other things, des Lauriers wrote to Lefebvre warning him.[7]
Sedeprivationism
[edit]Des Lauriers supported the belief that the current state of the papacy, based on Paul VI allegedly teaching heresy in the context of the Magisterium, was that Paul VI could not be a true pope, being only pope materially and not formally. This position known as the Thesis of Cassiciacum.
Episcopacy
[edit]On 7 May 1981, des Lauriers was illicitly consecrated a bishop by the sedevacantist bishop Thuc in Toulon, France. He was excommunicated from the Catholic Church in March 1983 for this.[8]
Des Lauriers nonetheless purported to consecrate two bishops: Günther Storck (a German) on 30 April 1984, and Robert McKenna (an American) on 22 August 1986.
Death and legacy
[edit]Des Lauriers died in Cosne-sur-Loire, France, on 27 February 1988, at the age of 89. He is buried in Raveau, France.[2]
Some leaders of schismatic Catholic movements adhere to his Thesis of Cassiciacum: Bishop Geert Stuyver (a Belgian) of the Istituto Mater Boni Consilii (IMBC), and Bishop Donald Sanborn of the Roman Catholic Institute (RCI).
Writings
[edit]By des Lauriers
[edit]- Le Saint-Esprit, âme de l'Eglise, Étiolles, Seine et Oise : Monastère de la Croix, 1948.
- Garabandal, S.l., 1965.
- Lettera ad un religioso di Simone Weil ; trad. di Mariella Bettarini. Risposta alla Lettera ad un religioso di Guérard des Lauriers ; trad. di Carmen Montesano (Lettre à un religieux), Torino : Borla, 1970.
- La Mathématique, les mathématiques, la mathématique moderne, Paris : Doin, 1972.
- Homélie (prononcée le 15 mai 1971 pour l'anniversaire de la mort de l'amiral de Penfentenyo de Kervéréguin), Versailles : R.O.C., 1973.
- La Charité de la vérité, Villegenon : Sainte Jeanne d'Arc, 1985.
- La Présence réelle du Verbe incarné dans les espèces consacrées, Villegenon : Sainte Jeanne d'Arc, 1987.
References
[edit]- ^ name="Edward Jarvis 2018, pp. 109-112">Edward Jarvis, Sede Vacante: the Life and Legacy of Archbishop Thục, Apocryphile Press, Berkeley CA, 2018, pp. 109-112 ISBN 1949643026
- ^ a b c d e Istituto Mater Boni Consilii (IMBC). "Memento di Padre Guérard des Lauriers o.p."
- ^ Notice IdRef de Sudoc
- ^ "In Memoriam: Most Rev. Michel-Louis Guérard des Lauriers, O.P. (1898-1988)". Novus Ordo Watch. 2018-02-27. Retrieved 2025-05-05.
- ^ "Lauriers: Sur les systèmes différentiels du second ordre qui admettent un groupe continu fini de transformations" (PDF).
- ^ Boersma, Hans. Nouvelle Théologie and Sacramental Ontology, OUP Oxford, 2009, p. 27
- ^ "Sodalitium - Site officiel de l'Institut Mater Boni Consilii" (PDF). Sodalitium (in French). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-04-11. Retrieved 2019-10-06.
- ^ "Notification". www.vatican.va. Retrieved 2022-07-01.
Further reading
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- Interview with Bp. Guerard des Lauriers about the Cassiciacum Thesis (Italian)
- Louis-Marie de Blignières, Le mystère de l'être. L'approche thomiste de Guérard des Lauriers, Paris, J. Vrin, 2008.
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