Editing Marcel Lefebvre (section)

===Lawful formation===

After retiring from the post of Superior General of the Holy Ghost Fathers, Lefebvre was approached by [[Traditionalist Catholic|traditionalists]] from the French Seminary in [[Rome]] who had been refused [[tonsure]],<ref>[http://la.revue.item.free.fr/interview_aulagnier_wanderer_anglais.htm The Wanderer Interviews Fr. Aulagnier, SSPX] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304023117/http://la.revue.item.free.fr/interview_aulagnier_wanderer_anglais.htm |date=4 March 2016 }}, Luc Gagnon, 18 September 2003</ref> the rite by which, until 1973,<ref>[http://www.ewtn.com/library/PAPALDOC/P6MINORS.HTM motu proprio "Ministeria quaedam"]. Ewtn.com. Retrieved on 1 November 2013.</ref> a seminarian became a cleric. They asked for a conservative seminary to complete their studies. After directing them to the [[University of Fribourg]], Switzerland,<ref name="seminary" /><ref name="own2003-09">{{cite web|url=http://www.sspxafrica.com/documents/2003_SepOct/Monsignor_Lefebvre_in_his_own_words.htm |title=Monsignor Lefebvre in his own words |access-date=7 December 2003 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20031207045935/http://www.sspxafrica.com/documents/2003_SepOct/Monsignor_Lefebvre_in_his_own_words.htm |archive-date=7 December 2003 }}. Society of St. Pius X – South Africa. sspxafrica.com. September/October 2003.</ref> Lefebvre was urged to teach these seminarians personally.<ref name="own2003-09" /> In 1969, he received permission from the local bishop to establish a seminary in Fribourg which opened with nine students, moving to [[Écône]], Switzerland in 1971.<ref name="own 2003-11">{{cite web|url=http://sspxafrica.com/documents/2003_NovDec/Monsignor_Lefebvre_in_his_own_words.htm |title=Monsignor Lefebvre in his own words |access-date=8 January 2004 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040108184813/http://sspxafrica.com/documents/2003_NovDec/Monsignor_Lefebvre_in_his_own_words.htm |archive-date=8 January 2004 }}. Society of St. Pius X – South Africa. sspxafrica.com. November/December 2003.</ref> {{irrelevant citation|reason=This sentence is not backed up by article.|date=August 2022}}

Lefebvre proposed to his seminarians the establishment of a society of priests without vows.<ref name="own2003-09" /> In November 1970, Bishop [[François Charrière]] of [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg|Fribourg]] established, on a provisional (''ad experimentum'') basis for six years, the [[Society of Saint Pius X|International Priestly Society of Saint Pius X]] (SSPX) as a "[[Association of the Christian faithful#Terminology|pious union]]".<ref>''Pia unio'' – the preliminary stage towards becoming an officially recognized [[religious institute]] or [[Society of Apostolic Life]]. For the decree see{{harnvb|Davies|1980|loc=[http://www.sspxasia.com/Documents/Archbishop-Lefebvre/Apologia/Vol_one/Appendix_V.htm Appendix V]}}</ref> He chose the name of [[Pope Pius X|Pope Saint Pius X]] as the patron saint of the society, because of his admiration for the pontiff's stance on modernism.<ref>{{cite book|date=1999 |page=134 |publisher=Angelus Press |title=Archbishop Lefebvre and the Vatican, 1987-1988}}<!-- auto-translated from Spanish by Module:CS1 translator --></ref>