Editing Marcel Lefebvre (section)

== Early life and family ==
Marcel Lefebvre was born in [[Tourcoing]], [[Nord (French department)|Nord]].<ref name="Apologia1">{{harnvb|Davies|1980|loc=[http://www.sspxasia.com/Documents/Archbishop-Lefebvre/Apologia/Vol_one/Chapter_1.htm Chapter 1]}}</ref><ref name=CathEncy446>{{harvnb|Dinges|2003|p=446}}</ref> He was the second son and third child of eight children<ref name="own 2002-02">{{cite web|url=http://www.sspxafrica.com/documents/2002_February/Monsignor_Lefebvre_in_his_own_words.htm |title=Monsignor Lefebvre in his own words |access-date=6 December 2006 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061206183348/http://www.sspxafrica.com/documents/2002_February/Monsignor_Lefebvre_in_his_own_words.htm |archive-date=6 December 2006 }}. Society of St. Pius X – South Africa. sspxafrica.com. February 2002.</ref> of textile factory-owner [[René Lefebvre]]<ref>''René Lefebvre, a factory owner'' [http://oriensjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Oriens-Vol10-2F.pdf The ghost at all our tables] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141224164745/http://oriensjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Oriens-Vol10-2F.pdf |date=24 December 2014 }}, Oriens, Summer 2005</ref> and Gabrielle, born Watine, who died in 1938.<ref name=CathEncy446 />

His parents were devout Catholics who brought their children to daily [[Mass (liturgy)|Mass]].<ref name="own 2002-02" /> His father, René, was an outspoken [[monarchist]], devoting his life to the cause of the [[Bourbon Dynasty#List of Bourbon rulers|French Dynasty]], seeing in a [[monarchy]] the only way of restoring to his country its past grandeur and a [[Christendom|Christian]] revival.<ref name=CathEncy446 /><ref>[http://www.angelusonline.org/index.php?section=articles&subsection=show_article&article_id=897 A Calvary 1941–1944 René Lefebvre Part 1], June 1984, Volume VII, Number 6, The Angelus</ref>

His father ran a spy-ring for [[British Intelligence]] when Tourcoing was occupied by the [[German Empire|Germans]] during [[World War I]]. René died at [[Sonnenburg concentration camp|Sonnenburg]] aged 65 in 1944, having been sentenced to death one year before.<ref>[https://www.ushmm.org/online/hsv/person_view.php?PersonId=4308649 René LeFebvre], Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database</ref>