Louis-Marie de Blignières
Louis-Marie de Blignières, civil name Olivier de Blignières (born April 11, 1949 in Madrid) is a French traditionalist Catholic priest, founder of the Fraternity of Saint Vincent Ferrer. Biography. The son of Hervé Le Barbier de Blignières, he was born in Madrid in 1949. He did primary and secondary in classics at Paris (1956-1967), and higher studies in science at L'école Sainte-Geneviève de Versailles and the Faculté des Sciences d'Orsay (1967-1972). He obtained a master's in Mathematics-Physics and a Certificate of Higher Studies in Astrophysics. He entered an apostolic Benedictine  community in Martigny in Valais in Switzerland (1972-1975) and after completing studies for the priesthood with the Society of Saint Pius X, he was ordained a priest in 1977 by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. After the Society of St. Pius X ordained bishops, resulting in the pronouncement of sentences of excommunication on its leadership, he dissociated himself with them and came to hold the Thesis of Cassiciacum. He later distanced himself from Michel-Louis Guérard des Lauriers and entered the full communion of the Catholic Church. He gave a course in Thomist spirituality in Paris and preached retreats on the  Rosary. In 1979, he founded the Fraternity of Saint Vincent Ferrer at Chémeré-le-Roi in Mayenne. He was the community's prior until 2011. In 2003, he defended a doctoral thesis entitled "La quête de la Ratio Entis : un itinéraire thomasien" à l'Université Paris-Sorbonne. The director of his thesis was Michel Podgorny. He is the author of the books "Les fins dernières" and other books. He leads the training seminars for students and young professionals, ("Café-Caté"), in the Latin Quarter of Paris.