Jean Laborie
Jean Laborie (1919 - 1996) was a French bishop of an independent Catholic church.
Biography[edit]
Jean Laborie was born on 16 November 1919, and by his own account he spent his early life doing menial labouring jobs with no involvement in religion.[1] In his forties he quickly discovered a vocation for religious life outside of the official Roman Catholic Church, and he was consecrated as an independent bishop on 2 October 1966 by Jean Pierre Danyel, a bishop of the Sainte Église Celtique. Later he was re-consecrated conditionally on 20 August 1968 by Louis Jean Stanislaus Canivet. He was re-consecrated conditionally a second time on 8 February 1977 by Traditionalist Catholic Archbishop Pierre Martin Ngo Dinh Thuc.[2] Laborie later ordained Luc Jouret to the priesthood, before Jouret went on to conduct the 'Solar Temple' sect and mass suicides.[3]
Further reading[edit]
- Jarvis, Edward (2018). Sede Vacante: The Life and Legacy of Archbishop Thuc. Berkeley CA: The Apocryphile Press. ISBN 9781949643022. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
- Luz, Frédéric (1995). Le Soufre et l'Encens: enquête sur les eglises parallèles et les évêques dissidents. Claire Vigne. ISBN 9782841930210. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
References[edit]
- ^ Edward Jarvis, Sede Vacante: the life and legacy of Archbishop Thuc, Apocryphile Press, Berkeley CA, 2019, p 103
- ^ Edward Jarvis, Sede Vacante: the life and legacy of Archbishop Thuc, Apocryphile Press, Berkeley CA, 2019, pp 102-104
- ^ James R. Lewis, The Order of the Solar Temple: the temple of death, Ashgate, Aldershot, 2006, pp 65-66