Sunday, October 18: Lyon: Excursion to Paray-le-Monial and Ars Continue to your hotel in Lyon for check-in, a welcome dinner, and overnight. Next, visit Lyon’s Cathedral, dedicated to St. She is also credited with saving the city several other times, such as from a cholera epidemic in 1832, and from Prussian invasion in 1870. Your first stop will be at the Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière, dedicated to Our Lady, to whom is attributed the salvation of the city of Lyon from the bubonic plague that swept Europe in 1643. Welcome to France! Upon arrival into Lyon, embark on a sightseeing of this third largest city of France. Friday, October 16: Transatlantic flight to Lyon Day 2. Dominique Bourmaud, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. May God quickly receive His good and faithful servant into the halls of Heaven.Įternal rest grant unto Fr. For now, please join the priests and religious of the Society, along with the lay faithful who work for the U.S. There are many more beautiful things to be said about Fr. He also gave his time to assist priests, both in and outside the SSPX, with their ministries and appeared in two episodes of the ongoing Crisis in the Church podcast series. He also found time to compose two books, One Hundred Years of Modernism and, most recently, An Introduction to Catholic Social Doctrine. Bourmaud continued in his priestly ministry until his health declined. As a learned cleric with connections worldwide, Father provided invaluable assistance identifying new and out-of-print works in other languages that would be of great interest to traditional Catholics.Įven with this heavy workload, Fr. Bourmaud also extended his work as censor into the Press’s book-publishing arena. During his time at the Press, Father oversaw the publication of The Angelus magazine, including developing themes for each issue, recruiting authors, and ensuring that its content was thoroughly orthodox. District’s publishing apostolate, Angelus Press. Bourmaud made a singular contribution to the U.S. All told, Father worked for the SSPX on five different continents. Bourmaud never stopped teaching.īesides the countries already mentioned, he also spent time in Spain and Kenya. Even after returning to the United States, he spent the better part of a decade shepherding diocesan and religious priests to the traditional Mass or even the SSPX itself through its “priests program.” In some sense, Fr. He also taught at the Seminary of Our Lady Co-Redemptrix in Argentina from 1994 to 1997 and Holy Cross Seminary in Australia from 1997 to 2009.
Thomas Aquinas Seminary (then in Ridgefield, CT) in 1983, where he would stay until 1993, five years after it moved to Winona, MN.
Bourmaud spent 25 of his 40 years of priesthood teaching in the SSPX’s seminaries. (He would spend only six months as a priest in his native France.) Ordained a priest by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in 1981, Fr. One of seven children, his family hailed from the Vendee region of France, a point of particular pride for Father. It is a testament to his kindness, pastoral sense, and tireless work to restore Catholic Tradition that so many were moved deeply by the news of his condition.
During his illness, Catholics around the world prayed fervently for his recovery. He was, fortunately, able to receive Last Rites and all the prayers of the Roman Ritual for the sick and dying before his death. He went to his eternal reward in the early hours of Saturday, September 4, 2021. District of the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) announce the passing of Fr. With great sadness, Angelus Press and the U.S.
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