François Ducaud-Bourget

Monsignor François Ducaud-Bourget (1898-1984) was a prominent traditionalist Roman Catholic French prelate, priest and close ally of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.

During World War II Ducaud-Bourget was active in the French Resistance as a priest, and helped Jews to escape to Spain. He was decorated by the government of Charles de Gaulle for his work.

Rejecting the revision of the Roman Missal that followed the Second Vatican Council, he organised celebration of the Latin Tridentine Mass in the chapel of the Hôpital Laënnec, a former hospital in Paris. When he was excluded from this in 1971, he tried in vain to obtain from the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris François Marty another place in which only the Tridentine Mass would be celebrated. When he failed in this, he organised the take-over, on 27 February 1977, of the parish church of Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet, expelling the priest in charge.

He had been made a chaplain of the Order of Malta in 1946 and an honorary prelate in the time of Pope Pius XII. He was probably deprived of this title later. [At latest in 1980: his name is no longer included in the renewed list published in the 1981 Annuario Pontificio.]

When he died in 1984, he was buried in the church of Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet, which has a portrait bust of him over his tomb. He was succeeded in charge the church by Father Philippe Laguérie, who later founded the Institute of the Good Shepherd.

In Popular Culture

In his "Le Cercle d'Ulysse", Jean Delaude presents Duchaud-Bourget as the successor of Jean Cocteau as "Nautonnier" (Grand Master) of the Priory of Sion. [Pierre Jarnac, "Les Mystères de Rennes-le-Château, Mélanges Sulfureux" (CERT, 1994).]

References

External links

* [http://docs.leforumcatholique.org/src/DOCUFCNUM29.html "Le Hérisson spirituel", article (in French) by François Ducaud-Bourget]
* [http://www.angelusonline.org/Article3498-thread-order1-threshold0.phtml Homily by Msgr. Francois Ducaud-Bourget at a Mass for the repose of the soul of Pope Paul VI at Saint Nicholas-du-Chardonnet]