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== Death == Lefebvre died from cancer on 25 March 1991 at the age of 85 in Martigny, Switzerland.<ref>{{cite news | work= [[New York Times]] | date= 3 April 1991 | first = Steven | last = Greenhouse | access-date = 19 September 2021 | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1991/03/26/662091.html | title = Archbishop Lefebvre, 85, Dies; Traditionalist Defied the Vatican}}</ref> Eight days later he was buried in the [[crypt]] at the [[International Seminary of Saint Pius X|society's international seminary]] in ΓcΓ΄ne. Archbishop [[Edoardo Rovida]], [[Apostolic Nuncio]] to Switzerland, and Bishop [[Henri Schwery]] of [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Sion|Sion]], the local diocese, came and prayed at his body.<ref>For an account of the funeral and burial see [http://www.angelusonline.org/Article2283-thread-order1-threshold0.phtml In Memoriam Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre], The Angelus, April 2002, Volume XXV, Number 4 {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090131121407/http://www.angelusonline.org/Article2283-thread-order1-threshold0.phtml |date=31 January 2009 }}</ref>
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