Chronology

CHRONOLOGY OF A LIFE AND A WORK

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	Life of the Abbé de Nantes	The Church and the World

1924	3 April : Birth at Toulon.
1925		Apparitions at Pontevedra.
1926		Condemnation of Action française.
1929		Apparition at Tuy.
1930	As a result of his father’s transfers, he studies six years with the Marists at Toulon and two years with the Jesuits at Brest.

1936		The Call of Silence (a film on the life of Fr. Charles de Foucauld by Léon Poirier).
1937	October : Pupil for four years at Our Lady of France boarding school in Puy with the Brothers of the Christian Schools.	March : Condemnation of Communism and Nazism.
1939		12 March : Pius XII elected Pope. 1 April : End of the Spanish Civil War. 3 September: World War II.
1940		10 July: Marshal Pétain, head of the French State. National Revolution.
1941	October : Faculté catholique de Lyon, certificate in psychology.
1942	June: Volunteer with the Youth Workers of the National Revolution.	31 October : Consecration of the world to the Immaculate Heart
1943	October : Entry into the philosophy seminary at Issy-les-Moulineaux.
1944	Summer 1944 and 1945: Holiday training at the Prado (Lyon).
1945	October : Entry into the theologate.	11 February : Yalta Accords, beginning of Communist expansion. 23 July – 15 August : Trial of Marshal Pétain.
1946		20 November : Beginning of the war in Indo China.
1947	Last year studying in the Carmelite seminary and the Institut catholique de Paris.
1948	27 March (Holy Saturday) : Ordained a priest by Mgr. Caillot, Bishop of Grenoble. First Mass at the church of Chônas, Easter Sunday. October: Philosophy professor with the Frères missionnaires des campagnes.	25 March : Sister Lucy enters the Carmel of Coimbra.
1949	Autumn : Religion and politics writer, under the pseudonym “Amicus”, for the daily Action française. Continues his higher education (4 licences) then a double thesis for the doctorate in theology, one on "The Person and his Relations" (unfinished), and one on "The Metaphysical Structure of the Person in St. Thomas Aquinas" (refused for "modernism" in 1952).
1950	June : His anti-Modernist and anti-progressivist teaching causes him to be dismissed from the Frères missionnaires des campagnes. October : Chaplain for the Blind Sisters of Saint Paul in Paris.	August : Humani Generis. 1 November : Proclamation of the dogma of the Assumption.
1951	June : First trip to Rome, for the beatification of Pius X. Lodged a complaint at the Holy Office against Father Congar’s book, “Vraie et fausse réforme de l'Église”.	23 July : Death of Marshal Pétain.
1952	April : Expelled from the Diocese of Paris by Cardinal Feltin after having delivered a conference talk at Nantes entitled “The MRP, Harbinger of Communism”. Summer : Invited by his bishop to teach in the major seminar of Grenoble; a cabal has him removed from there, and he finds himself « on the sidewalks of Paris ». September : Professor of Religious Instruction, then Professor of Philosophy and House Father at the Oratorian College at Pontoise. Meets the future Brothers Bruno and Gérard.	7 July : Sacro vergento anno. Incomplete consecration of Russia. 16 November : Death of Charles Maurras.
1953
1954		7 May : Fall of Dien Bien Phu, definitive loss of French Indo China 1 November : Start of the war in Algeria.
1955	June : Resignation from the College of Pontoise to enter the Novitiate of the Carmelite friars, but he is refused there at the last minute on account of his excessively reactionary attitude. September : Professor of Philosophy for three years at the College of Normandy.
1956	1 October : First Letter to My Friends. They will appear then without stopping at the rate of a twenty per year.	January : Soviet invasion of Hungary.
1957	January – November : Islam under scrutiny. Review of the work of Hanna Zacharias on the Qur’an published in L'ordre français. March : Meeting with Fr. Théry, OP (Hanna Zacharias), who encourages him to found his own community. Drafting of the Rule. November 1957 – August 1958 : Pilgrimages to Lisieux, Lourdes and Ars. Retreats at the Grande Chartreuse and with the Little Sisters of Père de Foucauld at Montpellier.	26 December : Fr. Fuentes interviews Sister Lucy.



	Principal events	Principal studies	The Church and the World

1958	9 January : Interview with Mgr. Le Couëdic, who reserves him a place in his diocese. 15 September : Installation as parish priest of Villemaur, Pâlis and Planty. Along with Brother Bruno and Brother Gérard, he founds the community of Little Brothers of the Sacred Heart of Villemaur.	1957-1961 : Letters of Spirituality: Father de Foucauld, the Holy Family in Nazareth, the Holy Spirit and the Church.	March : Khrushchev President of the USSR. 28 September : Founding of the Fifth Republic. 28 October : John XXIII elected Pope.
1959	Fruitful parish ministry. The first three brothers (Bruno, Gérard and Christian) perform their military service in Algeria.	October : Beginning of the series Mystery of the Church and the Antichrist (1-25). Denunciation of the heresy of progressivism.	August : John XXIII decides not to reveal the Third Secret.
1960		January : 1960, Year 1 of the expansion of World Communism.	17 May : Mgr. Venancio's letter to the bishops of the world.
1961	6 August : Mgr. Le Couëdic bestows the monastic cowl.	July : Beginning of the series « The Gospel and Politics » on the defence of French Algeria.	21 April : The Generals' Putsch in Algiers. December : India invades Goa.
1962	14-31 March : Confinement at the Major Seminary of Troyes by order of the government because of his public opposition to the abandonment of Algeria. 11 October : Declared opposition to Vatican Council II. 21 November : Brother Bruno and Brother Gérard are refused Holy Orders.	1962-1965 : Chronicle of the Council. The Conciliar texts are analysed as soon as they appear and their errors unmasked.	18 March : Évian Accords. 26 March : Shoot-out in the rue d'Isly, Algiers. 11 October : Opening Discourse of Vatican Council II. 22-28 October : Cuban Missile Crisis.
1963	April: Mgr. Le Couëdic's ultimatum: he must be silent or be dismissed. 4-21 June :Second trip to Rome to seek justice. Interview with Cardinal Philippe. 15 September : Suspended "ab officio". Forced to leave Villemaur, the Community takes up residence at Saint-Parres-lès-Vaudes.	January – February : Letters on Teilhard de Chardin and Karl Rahner. September : What is Integrism ? (Letter to My Friends, No. 151)	11 April : Pacem in Terris. 21 June : Election of Paul VI.
1964	May : Third trip to Rome.	September : First recorded Community retreat. They will continue to be so each year.	The Constitution Lumen Gentium. 6 August : Ecclesiam Suam. December : Paul VI in Bombay.
1965	10-19 December: Mgr. Le Couëdic threatens sanctions. Letter of reply.	February-July : The Church and the MASDU. Explanation and criticism of Paul VI's heresy, which makes of the church a Movement for the Spiritual Animation of Universal Democracy.	Conciliar Declarations: - Nostra Ætate - Religious Liberty - Ecumenism 4 October : Paul VI goes to the UN. The Constitution Gaudium et Spes. 7 December : Closing of the Council. Proclamation of the Cult of Man by Paul VI.
1966	April : Appeal to Rome. Mgr. Le Couëdic refuses to send the petition to Cardinal Ottaviani. July : His case is introduced at the Holy Office. 25 August : The Abbé de Nantes is struck with suspension “a divinis” for having published his petition.	February-July : Commentary on the Credo, I-VI (Letters submitted for Bishop's approval). September – February 1967 : On Arianism and the Masdu. S 6 : The Liturgical Year: publication of his recorded sermons (idem in 1980 and 1985).	26 March : Populorum progressio . Autumn : Cultural Revolution in China.
1967	October: First issue of the Contre-Réforme catholique au XX e siècle, a monthly review that replaces the Letters to My Friends.	June: The True Message of Our Lady of Fatima. October – March 1968: Open Letter to Paul VI.	February: Resignation of Mgr. Le Couëdic. May: Paul VI makes the journey to Fatima. 5-10 June: The Six-Day War.
1968	25 April– 5 July : Directive resulting from the trial at the Holy Office. Encouraged by Mgr. Lefebvre, he refuses to sign a formula of general retraction.	February: First Page mystique. April– October: Open letter to Cardinal Lefebvre on the subject of the new catechism.	May: ’68 Demonstrations. 30 June: The Credo of Paul VI. 25 July : Humanæ Vitæ
1969	February: In Paris, in the Auditorium of the Mutualité, launching of a national crusade against the new catechisms. 23 May : At Troyes, interview with Cardinal Lefebvre. New refusal to sign. 7 July: Cardinal Seper's ultimatum. 16 July : My profession of Catholic Faith (answer to the ultimatum). 21 July: Visit of Integrist priests to Maison Saint-Joseph, urging schismatic dissidence. They are shown out. 9 August: Notification of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith: the Abbé de Nantes is « disqualified ».	May 1969 – August 1970: Letter on the Dutch Catechism. October 1969 - June 1970: Controversy over the New Mass, judged to be “valid but bad” after an unanswerable demonstration, often repeated during the 70s.	March: Promulgation of Paul VI's new ordo missæ, which would come into force on 30 November. April: Resignation of General de Gaulle. G. Pompidou, President. 15 December: Albino Luciani, Patriarch of Venice.

1970	February: First issue of the « Catholic Counter-Reformation (CCR) ». English translation by Dr David Boyce. March: Founding of the League of Catholic Counter-Reformation (CCR). October: First League Congress. It will take place annually thereafter, and its conferences will be recorded.	February: The Church, the Church Alone! (Definition of the Catholic Counter-Reformation's high ground) December: The Peace of the Church, a tract defining the conditions for a truce among Catholics.	September: Intervention of the Jordanian Army against the PLO.
1971	January: The first regional League circles are formed. October: Foundation of the Little Sisters of the Sacred Heart, who take up residence at Maison Sainte-Marie. Conference tour throughout France and abroad.	August: St. Pius X's Catholic Religion and H. H. Paul VI's Political Utopia: a synoptic demonstration of the contradictions between the Letter on the Sillon and the Pope's discourses. 14 October in Paris, Auditorium of the Mutualité: Toward Vatican III: Council of Counter-Reformation.
1972		December 1971 – October 1972: Beginning of the monthly conferences in the Auditorium of the Mutualité in Paris: Preparing Vatican III, a critical study of the eleven conciliar Constitutions and Decrees with a suggestion for a schema to undo their damage at the next Council. August: Our Lady, Mercy!	Hasard et certitude, (G. Salet) on the origin of life, DNA, and molecular biology.
1973	10 April: First Approach to Rome to submit the Liber Accusationis in Paulum Sextum. 18 October: Consecration of the League to the Sacred Heart of Jesus (3500 Catholics at the Mutualité). November: Distribution of the Liber to the clergy of Rome, without results.	December 1972 – October 1973: Kerygmatics: Theology that is based on the proclamation of Apostolic preaching and that responds to modern questions by a greater understanding of the mystery. (Cardonnel, Teilhard, Duquesne, Léon-Dufour, Taizé) Increase in the number of audio recordings: Holy Week Retreats, sessions during the feasts of Pentecost, All Saints, the Sacred Heart and the Assumption, Marian retreats…	January: Retreat of American troops from Vietnam. 10 June: Yom Kippur War. 26 June: General Pinochet's coup d'état in Chile.
1974	April: First veiled cautioning against Mgr. Lefebvre’s schismatic leanings. September: Opening of the Permanence Charles de Foucauld in Paris. October: The Isorni trial against de Nantes on the Jews’ responsibility at the trial of Jesus. November – December: First trip to Canada.	January – August: Catholic apologetics: Renewed demonstration of the credibility of Christianity, responding to the modern objections of science and philosophy. 28 September: The League's three-point Act of Union. 19 October in Paris: For a new Christendom, under the sign of Fatima. November: 1^st Chronicle of current events at the monthly meeting in Paris. From then on it would take place every month.	April: Declaration of French bishops on abortion. 26 April: Carnation Revolution in Portugal. May: Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, President of the French Republic. June: Watergate scandal, President Nixon's resignation. Youth Council at Taizé. October: Memoirs of Cardinal Mindzenty. November: Simone Veil law on abortion in France.
1975	February: Trip to Écône. In his editorials Abbé de Nantes urges Mgr. Lefebvre to assume leadership of the doctrinal debate with Rome. March: Mgr. Lefebvre publicly disavows the Abbé de Nantes. September: First Catholic Counter-Reformation retreat camp. One will take place each year and have a variety of historical and doctrinal topics as its theme.	February – November: The great crises of the Church: For a historical understanding of our high ground: neither integriste, nor progressivist, but traditionalist. (Arianism, Nestorianism, Pelagianism, Dialectics, Protestantism,Quietism, Modernism, MASDU.) 22 November in Paris: For a Catholic nationalism.	Accelerated Communist expansion: South Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Angola, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Madagascar. 1 August: Helsinki Accords on European security and cooperation . 20 November: Death of Franco. Juan Carlos, King of Spain.
1976	Summer: Beginning of the “bicycle camps”. Each year they will bring together hundreds of children chaperoned by the brothers along all the roads of France. Summer: Editorials denouncing the path adopted by Mgr. Lefebvre leading to schism.	January – November: The Great Debates of our Time: Definition of a critical and forward-looking traditionalism. Philosophy course, given at Maison Saint-Joseph. 13 November in Paris: French Authenticity. The role reserved for the true France in world geopolitics.	God is God, for God's sake! (Maurice Clavel) French ills. (Alain Peyrefitte) November: Jimmy Carter, President of the United States.
1977	January – March: Public debate with Father Congar on religious liberty and the infallibility of the Council.	November 1976 – August 1977: The Sacraments: Theological and pastoral aspects of the seven Sacraments. January 1977 – August 1978: The Catholic Counter-Revolution. Political, historical and military studies in reaction to Alain Peyrefitte's book, and defining the terms of a true national restoration. 19 November in Paris: Goulag or Christianity, in response to the « New Philosophers ».	27 February: Illegal occupation of the church of Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet by the Fraternity of Saint Pie X. June: Brejnev, President of the Supreme Presidium of the USSR. 11 July: Interview of Sister Lucie with Cardinal Luciani.
1978	13 June: Meeting with Cardinals Marty and Etchegaray, who agree to act as patrons for his attempts at reconciliation. 15 September: Perpetual vows. October: Brother Bruno participates in the scientific congress on the Holy Shroud, on which he becomes the foremost expert in France. 25 November in Paris: The League approves an initial letter of supplication to be sent to the Holy Father for the peace of the Church.	November 1977 – September 1978: A mysticism for our times. The search for an open and appealing way to union with God and the mystical life, by following the path of beauty. August: Funeral Oration for Paul VI. September – October: Editorials on John Paul I : Another Saint Pius X without knowing it The saint that God gave us.. November: The 150 Points of the Phalange: our “little red book”, a global summary of Catholic Counter-Reformation doctrine, Catholic, royal, communitarian.	6 August: Death of Paul VI. 26 August: Election of John Paul I. September: First Lebanese War. 29 September: Assassination of John Paul I 16 October: Election of John Paul II.
1979	Enlargement of Maison Saint-Joseph is completed. May: Second trip to Canada. December: Brother Bruno goes to Mexico to study the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe.	January – September: Series of articles on John Paul II's political compromising , on The Polish illusion and on human rights. February: Beginning of the Mémoires et récits, our Father's memoirs that were published each month until 1992. August: First special issue devoted to the Holy Shroud of Turin. 24 December in Paris: The Four Ways of Being Right with the Pope. The Catholic Counter-Reformation chooses the necessity for demands of truth, but with confidence that the Church must save herself.	February : Publication of the book : Péril en la demeure written by the philosopher Jean-Marie Paupert. 4 March: Redemptor Hominis.

1980

Marie Noël

November 1979 – July 1980:
The great confrontations of the century: the great modern anti-Christian systems (Pagan humanism, Judaism, Freemasonry, Islam) compared with the divine plan of salvation by the Church.

13 June: Chartres: study of the literary works of Marie Noël.

September: Special issue on Our Lady of Guadalupe.

22 November in Paris: Against the war. The announcement of an imminent third World War, its causes and remedies for France.

April: Letter on the Eucharist.

May: John Paul II's trip to France.

November: Reagan, President of the United States.

30 November: Dives in misericordia.

1981

13 May: « The Abbé de Nantes commits grave theological errors. »
(Mgr. Lanzoni, of the Secretariat of State, in a letter to a private individual)

5-21 October: Third trip to Canada.

December: Brother Bruno makes trips to:
-Bologna ( Sindonological Congress)
-Rome: Interview with Mgr. Re: The Abbé de Nantes does not commit any doctrinal error. His fault is: an “erroneous ecclesiastical situation”.

November 1980 – Oct. 1981
Scientific Apologetics:
A refutation of so-called “modern” science, in its philo