Author Topic: Belated Notice: A Great Priest has Died (Read 1647 times)

SeanJohnson · « **on:** January 25, 2022, 05:12:45 PM »

Valais [Switzerland] mourns the death of a great priest of the Resistance:

https://cristiadatradicinalista.blogspot.com/2022/01/le-valais-pleure-le-deces-dun-grand.html

Fr. Epiney passed away gently in his house in Riddes on January 15, 2022.

He is a great priest who has just left this valley of tears to join his Master.

The world without God will ignore him, but he was great in the history of the ultimate struggle that the militant Church is currently waging; his vocation was revealed to him mysteriously by a Capuchin priest when he was only a child. He was the savior of many priestly souls in peril, but above all he was the faithful friend of Archbishop Lefebvre and Bishop Williamson. He was an unwavering supporter of Catholic Tradition from the beginning and especially of Catholic resistance in those horrible times of universal treason.

He went through and endured all the storms, vexations, vicissitudes and betrayals. He also refused to remain silent in the face of the rallying of the SSPX and the spirit of compromise that was that of a great number of priests of this work. This is why he continued to invite Bishop Williamson to his home until the end because he saw in the figure of the English bishop the continuation of the Catholic struggle initiated by Archbishop Lefebvre. This led to his being persona non grata in the nearby seminary... He was therefore doubly a man of fidelity.

On June 3, 2021, he celebrated his diamond jubilee in Riddes surrounded by many priest friends from all over Europe.

The funeral of Fr. Epiney took place on January 19. Fr. Grenon, his successor, celebrated the funeral Mass and Fr. Koller gave a magnificent sermon in memory of the priest. Only one SSPX priest was present at the ceremony - masked to the forehead - no doubt the eye of Moscow.

We must certainly pray for the repose of the soul of this great soldier of the Faith that Fr. Epiney was, but we must also implore him so that many priests and faithful will keep or rediscover his ardent zeal for the defense of the Catholic Faith.

Here is the sermon that Archbishop Lefebvre gave on May 29, 1986, on the occasion of his 25th anniversary as a priest:

Dear Father,

My first words will be to you, to congratulate you and to speak on behalf of all those who have come here, no doubt for Corpus Christi and to honor Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Sacrament of the Eucharist today, but also by a delicacy of Providence, they can at the same time celebrate you and with you, during Holy Mass, give thanks to God for your priesthood, for all the graces you have received and all the graces you have given.

It would be up to you, dear Mr. Priest, to say, to express all these graces that you have received during your life, all this past, from your birth to this day, is better known to you than to me. And so you could do it with much more precision than I can, but nevertheless, I would like to say briefly, to say what the Good God has done for you and for us since you are very close to us and very attached to us: Sed ego elegi vos (Jn 15,16): "But it is I who have chosen you". Elegit Deus sacerdotem suum. "God has chosen his priest". I believe that we can say this in a very special way for you, dear Father, truly the Good Lord has chosen you. Everything proves it, everything indicates it. He chose you by making you be born in a deeply Christian family. Your mother, here present, gave you, with your father now in Heaven, a true Catholic formation, a profound Christian formation, in a mountain setting which also expresses in a very special way, the greatness of the Good God, the beauty of God, which gave you the opportunity to be formed in a rough way to the true Christian virtues, in this country with a difficult climate. How many memories all this must bring back to you. And then, the Good Lord chose you to be his priest. Twenty-five years ago you received the priestly anointing and you are a priest of the diocese of Sion.

This year of priesthood, 1961, was the year before the Council, which was preparing upheavals and great changes in our Holy Church. And by a particular grace of the Good God, you knew how to keep the sense of faith, the sense of what was given to you in the seminary. And while still a young curate, then a young parish priest, on the occasion of priestly meetings, you did not hesitate to express your disapproval of the changes that you saw coming and which seemed to you - rightly - contrary to the good of the Church, contrary to the good of souls. So you said it outright. And, to show your attachment to the Church of all times, you also kept your cassock, your ecclesiastical habit, convinced that this was a manifestation of your attachment to the faith and the priesthood.

And then, Providence wanted your bishop to appoint you to Riddes, knowing perfectly well that it was a particularly difficult ministry - Riddes was not known for its Christian fervor - and consequently in an environment where there was much to do and where your zeal could have been exercised, that your bishop sent you. And not only to evangelize, but also to build a new church, just as you had, in the end, to build the spiritual church, you also had to build the material church. And this is what you did. You have done both, dear M. le Curé, you have given Riddes back its former faith, you have given Riddes a church, a new church. But while you were in Riddes, you were at the same time the parish priest of Ecône. And again by a particular grace of Holy Providence, Ecône became what we know today: the seminary of Ecône, with the authorization of the bishop of Sion. And consequently there was no difficulty, on the contrary, in having the seminary closely linked to the parish of Riddes, which was our parish. And we found precisely the parish priest that the Good Lord had prepared for us. He was firm in his faith, attached to Tradition, ready to fight if necessary to keep his faith, to keep his priesthood in an integral way.

So, from then on, Ecône and the parish priest of Riddes had a relationship that remained admirably faithful. And it is there that a choice, dear Mr. Curé, had to be made by you, in spite of the pain of apparently breaking with the diocese, you preferred to keep the Tradition, to keep the faith, rather than to see the disaster enter your church, in your parish as in the other parishes, to see the parishes deserted; like the seminary of Sion which closed its doors to send the few subjects who remained, to Fribourg You preferred to continue your priestly ministry as you had received it from your bishop and as you had been taught in the seminary.

You did not want to change and you remained the priest, the Catholic priest of all time. For this we congratulate you with all our heart. In spite of the trials you had to undergo, you remained faithful.

And now, twenty-five years of priesthood have passed. And thanks to you, dear Father, the Valais is still Catholic. I believe that we can say it and we must say it. No doubt, you will say to me: But Ecône has also become the symbol of Catholicity, the symbol of fidelity to the Church of all time. But it is not Ecône that has maintained the faith in this dear Valais, it is you, dear Father, it is through you. If you had not been there, we would not have known this influx of Valaisans. We would not have known this maintenance of the Catholic faith in the hearts of the Valaisans.

So, I think that the people here present, who are a small number among those represented by all the Catholic centers of the Valais, thank you very much for having helped them to keep the faith, for having been the priest, the Catholic priest who maintains the Christian education of the children; who maintains the sanctification of the families; who maintains the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for ever. What graces for the faithful of Valais. And if we can say that Ecône is also surrounded by these dear faithful, well, we owe it to you, dear Curé.

And if this fidelity to Ecône, in spite of the trials that we too have undergone, during these last fifteen years, has always been manifested in a permanent, unfailing manner, it is to you that we owe it also, because, in the midst of these trials, you have always been present. You have never changed; you have never wavered. You remained like a rock, faithful to Ecône and faithful to the faith, faithful to the Church. This is what we want to be, this is what we must be.

So for all this we thank God and we thank you, dear Father, wishing you, on the occasion of these twenty-five years of priesthood, many more years of ministry, to continue to maintain and develop the true faith, the Catholic faith in this country which has been the source of so many vocations, vocations in the diocese, vocations outside the diocese, so many missionaries, so many religious men and women have come out of these Valais families. Which family did not count among its members or relatives, religious men and women, priests. So by your action, by your zeal, you are rebuilding and maintaining what can still be maintained in Christian families. And from this also come vocations 728

This year we will have the joy of ordaining five new Swiss priests. This is truly a great grace. And it is to your example and your prayer that we owe these vocations, dear Father.

May the Good Lord bless you, may the Good Lord continue to give you strong health and give you all the graces you need to continue your magnificent apostolate for the glory of the Good Lord and for the salvation of souls.

My dear brothers, I do not want to prolong this preaching too long since we have a rather long ceremony today with the procession of the Blessed Sacrament that will follow this Mass, but let us thank God, my dear brothers, that this feast of the priesthood is taking place precisely on Corpus Christi, day of the Eucharist, day of the Mass, since the Eucharist is the marvelous, miraculous fruit of the Holy Mass, of the Sacrifice of Our Lord Jesus Christ. It is therefore also the feast of the priesthood and the feast of the Eucharist.

Let us thank God and understand, let us keep this conviction that without the priesthood there is no more Christian life. Without the priesthood there are no Christian families, without the priesthood there is no Christian city. Everything is attached to the priest. The Good Lord wanted it that way. Our Lord wanted it: Do this in memory of me. He said to his priests: Do this in memory of me. He entrusted the Sacrifice of the Mass to them. To them he entrusted the Eucharist. To them He has entrusted the teaching of Christian doctrine; to them He has entrusted the sanctification of souls and the guidance of souls. This is the priest. What an extraordinary gift: a holy priest is a wonderful gift.

I am sure that you are praying, my dear brothers, with all your heart, with all your soul, that the Good Lord will multiply the number of holy priests. Holy priests in the image of the dear parish priest of Riddes, entirely devoted, zealous, for the good of souls, for the good of families, for the good of the city.

The priest is at the origin of all Christian civilization, with the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, through the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, by Our Lord Jesus Christ, for the reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ.

We are going to sing the praises to Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Eucharist. We cannot do better; may Jesus reign over us; may he reign in us, in our souls; may he reign in our families; may he reign in our villages; may he reign in our Valais. May this Valais become again a Catholic Valais, honoring Our Lord Jesus Christ, respecting the laws of Our Lord Jesus Christ; putting nothing above Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Saint Benedict gave as a motto to his minors: Christo omninum nihi preponant : Let the monks place nothing above Our Lord Jesus Christ; let Our Lord be truly the first served, the first honored, the first loved.

Well, let that be our motto here today, on the occasion of the feast of the priesthood of the Reverend Father and the feast of the Holy Eucharist: Put nothing above Our Lord Jesus Christ. May Jesus reign in us, in our homes, in our cities, through the intermediary and intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. So be it.

SeanJohnson · « **Reply #1 on:** January 25, 2022, 05:26:59 PM »

I hadn't been checking the French blogs and fora lately; its a shame to have missed this.

SeanJohnson · « **Reply #2 on:** January 25, 2022, 05:44:58 PM »

Sermon by Fr. Epiney

Sunday 26 May 2019
Riddes (Switzerland)

We have been informed of a communiqué signed by the Superior of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X, Don Davide Pagliarani, and by Bishop Vitus Huonder, Bishop of Chur, who has just resigned:

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"Today, Monday, May 20, 2019, Pope Francis released Bishop Vitus Huonder from his office as Bishop of the Diocese of Chur and appointed a Diocesan Administrator until the election of a successor in the Chur Episcopal See. According to his long expressed wish Bishop Huonder withdraws to a house of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X. The sole purpose of this step is to dedicate himself to prayer and silence, to celebrate exclusively the traditional Mass and to work for tradition, in which he sees the only means of renewing the Church. The Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X appreciates the courageous decision of Bishop Huonder and is pleased to be able to offer him the spiritual and priestly framework that he so desires. May others follow this example to 'renew everything in Christ'. - Signed by Bishop + Vitus Huonder, Bishop Emeritus of Chur, and Don Davide Pagliarani, Superior General of FSSPX."

On the same day Bishop Huonder wrote among other things this in his letter to the diocese of Chur:

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"I myself now, as already known, take up my residence in the residential wing of the priest house in the Institut Sancta Maria in Wangs/SG. This institute belongs to the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X. In the spirit of Pope Francis, I will strive to contribute there to the unity of the Church, not by excluding, but by helping to discern, accompany and integrate".

What should we think of this?

First, we are surprised. A conciliar bishop, a pupil of Pope Benedict XVI, a friend of Pope Francis, is received in a school of fraternity in Wangs. On the other hand, Bishop Williamson, although consecrated by Bishop Lefebvre in 1988, was excluded from the fraternity. Furthermore, Father Schreiber, Superior of the Fraternity for Switzerland, in a letter to Father Grenon, explains that, due to the presence of Father Brühwiler, he forbids the faithful to come here to Riddes for Mass.

Now you know that Father Brühwiler came here to help because of my illness and weakness, and he was excluded from the fraternity! What evil has he done? He wanted (like) Bishop Lefebvre, the founder of the brotherhood, to remain faithful. And like other priests, he was excluded from the brotherhood, as was Bishop Williamson. And Bishop Fellay asked me to send him away. What I cannot do for reasons of conscience, because he is a good, zealous priest who deserves our trust and who cares to be faithful to the Founder. Then Father Brühwiler, excluded from the Fraternity, joined the Priestly Fraternity of the Apostles Jesus and Marie, founded by Bishop Williamson and Bishop Faure. What is this community? - That was the name Archbishop Lefebvre chose for his work. Later he chose the name of the Priestly Brotherhood of Saint Pius X. But the statutes of this priestly community are the same as those of the Fraternity, with the clear and unequivocal will to remain completely faithful to Archbishop Lefebvre, the Founder. Father Brühwiler was therefore no longer accountable to the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X, since he was excluded; and he made a request to join this Fraternity of the Apostles of Jesus and Mary. And he was accepted. He is therefore now under the leadership of Auxiliary Bishop Faure and Auxiliary Bishop Williamson, which allows him to remain here among you. To help us I would like to quote a word from Bishop Tissier de Mallerais. A few years ago he said:

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"The great apostasy of which St. Paul speaks does not cease to grow. The social kingship of Christ is very much destroyed by the religious freedom and human rights of the Second Vatican Council. Without the ordinations of Archbishop Lefebvre in 1988, we would have died! Neither would Peter's brotherhood or anything else, no Ecclesia Dei, the tradition would be dead! Operation Survival" was a complete success thanks to the heroic action of Archbishop Lefebvre, who is still excommunicated! Nothing has changed in Rome. Hardened hearts, blinded spirits, the parallel church is the new 'Konzils' church, its new religion is ecuмenical. Archbishop Lefebvre was right: "Only bishops who are completely free from any influence of liberal Rome will be able to work for the good of the Church."

My dear believers, the situation is serious. Ecône is changing. It is time to close the ranks and not leave our chapel, as we are recommended! We have always helped the brotherhood, worked for them! We have given her all the chapels we have set up! Why should this be bad? This is the Mother Chapel of all the others here in Valais. To facilitate the Mass of all times. It is not only about Mass, but also about faith! All the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council, all the Bishops read the true Mass! And they all changed to modernism, except for a few who resisted to give only one in the end! Because Archbishop Lefebvre fought to the end. He saved not only the Mass and the priesthood, but also the Catholic faith! Because the result of this renewal is the is apostasy! This is no longer the Catholic Church, that is the ecuмenical church, and there are enough examples! One only has to open one's eyes to see that the people (who) have the true Catholic faith, the true moral(s), the truth, lose piety. And the priestly and religious vocations are diminishing more and more. We call on African priests to replace our own, we no longer have enough!

Bishop Huonder was ordained priest with the new rite in 1971. In 2007 he was ordained bishop with the new rite of episcopal ordination. Archbishop Lefebvre, however, said: "All sacraments are doubtful! And so it is no longer clear today in the Church whether priests are priests, whether bishops are bishops! It is confusion! We are in full Protestantism! It is almost the same, or even worse! So by letting such bishops come into the houses of the fraternity, who we are not sure whether their priestly and episcopal ordinations are valid, and who have permanent contacts with other bishops who want to bring us back to Vatican II... Because it is the goal, they also say it: It is about helping to integrate! Yes, yes! He is a disciple of Pope Benedict XVI, ... Because it is the goal, they also say it: It is about helping to integrate! Yes, yes! He is a disciple of Pope Benedict XVI, who drew out some traditional communities who probably remained faithful to the Mass, but who no longer fight the mistakes of modernism. They must be silent! We cannot be silent when it comes to the truth! We must respond! Why? Because it is about our faith, about our salvation, about the salvation of our souls! We must wake up! Let us not fall asleep! We must not run away! Before 2012 it was the Council Church that persecuted and excluded the most faithful, while today - after the exclusion of an Auxiliary Bishop and numerous priests - precisely these excluded want to remain faithful only to Archbishop Lefebvre. That turns the world upside down! We cannot not react to such actions, because everything we have done so far would be in vain!

We are at exactly the same point as we were 40 years ago, when most Catholics obediently accepted the new Mass and the new directions, while obedience is a virtue linked to faith! It is not just about discipline, but about faith! We must obey God, not man! We want to encourage people to remain faithful and have the courage to fight, as Our Lady of La Salette said, with the weapons available: Holy Mass of course, the Rosary and faith! The defence of the Catholic faith to the end! To the death of a martyr, if necessary! For without the Catholic faith one cannot be saved. Our Saviour is not Luther, is not Buddha! Now every week there are ceremonies with Protestants, Buddhists, Jєωs and whatever! That is no longer the true church! The true church is as if it were being pushed into the background to benefit from a false church! We must stay as we are because we have never left the Church! They are the ones who went out! It is Rome that must return to tradition! It is not tradition that must go to Rome to be received! Our Lady of La Salette said: "Fight, children of light, you, the small number you are seeing". The Church will recede into the background, Rome will lose its faith! May your zeal make you hungry for the glory and glory of Jesus Christ!

We conclude, dear brothers, in these next days the month of Mary introduced by the Holy Philip Neri. He gathered the young people in Rome to ask the Blessed Virgin Mary every day in May, and there were heart-shattering conversions! Among these conversions there were also priests, bishops, sisters and popes! Because by praying to the Blessed Virgin, we touch the heart of our Lord, who can not resist answering to what Our Lady is asking. But today, as Lucia said in Fatima, do not expect the popes, bishops and superiors to give you orders to pray. Everyone should pray for themselves! Especially the rosary prayer! Participation in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, knowledge of the Catechism, the Catholic doctrine to preserve the faith and pass it on! That is our mission. So you benefit from these three prayer days. These are public prayers. At that time there were all sorts of disasters, earthquakes and poverty, so for three days the bishop had ordered large public processions that lasted all day long to ask the Blessed Virgin to put an end to the catastrophes.

And it was achieved! As a result, it has made the church obligatory to celebrate this event. But these days of prayer, who still makes them today? We talk about fertilizers, pesticides and whatever you want! God has given us nature! Every year he makes it bloom again! Every year it brings fruit! You have to thank him! We must pray that we can use it well, and pray fervently with the Blessed Virgin Mary, because only she can strike down the infernal demon that rules in the heart of Rome, the Vatican! The burning of Notre Dame de Paris cathedral is a sign that France's faith is falling to pieces! And when the bishops start from the new, it is the end of the Catholic religion! Marie Julie Jahenny had prophesied 129 years ago that Notre Dame would burn from Paris, but also the Vatican! Punishments are to be expected because God is not mocked.

See, my beloved faithful, how necessary it is to close the ranks and pray with the same passion as 40 years ago, when we had lost everything, and thanks to prayer, God had given us everything again (..) To preserve a home It is now necessary to do this again because we lost what we had won. Because of US! Because of our people who absolutely want to be recognized in order to be accepted. So be careful. Let us watch and pray, keep courage and trust.

In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

SeanJohnson · « **Reply #3 on:** January 25, 2022, 06:11:13 PM »

"Father Pierre Epiney passed away this morning, January 15, 2022, around 7:00 am. He was already ill for a long time and it seems that the covid accelerated his end. He had been under oxygen and perfusion for a few days already. He died peacefully, not in hospital but at home in the parish of Riddes, of which he had been the parish priest for almost 50 years (appointed in 1967 by Bishop Adam).

He was a great man who has just left us, non-existent for the media but great for history; he was an unshakeable rock in fidelity to his baptism, a faithful friend of Archbishop Lefebvre and an unwavering supporter of the Catholic Tradition."

https://www.medias-presse.info/deces-de-labbe-pierre-epiney-cure-de-riddes-et-ami-de-mgr-lefebvre/152090/

SeanJohnson · « **Reply #4 on:** January 25, 2022, 06:16:12 PM »

DEATH OF FR. EPINEY

https://abbe-pivert.com/deces-de-m-labbe-epiney/

Father Epiney passed away this morning.

He was parish priest of Riddes when Archbishop Lefebvre established the seminary of Ecône in his parish. At that time in Valais there was a widespread zeal for the reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ, thanks to the spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius preached in particular by our good Father Barrielle. A large number of lay people were working for the restoration of Tradition and many of them were great supporters and friends of Archbishop Lefebvre. Many bought the house in Ecône and offered it to Archbishop Lefebvre to establish his seminary, which became world famous.

Because of his support for Archbishop Lefebvre, the parish priest of Riddes was dismissed by his bishop, Bishop Adam, who claimed to be in favor of Tradition. He immediately founded a replacement parish in a sawmill for the many faithful traditionalists, but he remained "Monsieur le Curé" for all. We often saw him in Ecône, at Archbishop Lefebvre's table.

The Society of St. Pius X found a way to be angry with him after the death of Archbishop Lefebvre, forbidding him to enter the seminary of Ecône and forbidding the faithful to frequent him and to ask him for the sacraments. Later, it received and hosted Bishop Huonder, a modernist bishop, artisan of ecuмenism and friend of Bergoglio...

I went to his house in 2019 with several priests of the Catholic Resistance. He had gathered around him several Swiss and German priests who had left the Society of Saint Pius X to remain, like him, faithful to Archbishop Lefebvre and to Tradition. He was a good man, of good advice, a faithful pastor. During this stay with him, I was able to discover what the Catholic Valais was, the one before the Council, a true Christianity living of the faith, practicing charity and mercy, having sent a great number of missionaries throughout the world, notably in the high mountains of the Himalayas, in Tibet. Father Epiney was of the same calibre.

He had celebrated his diamond jubilee on the Feast of God last June. He died on the eve of Saint Marcel's day, Archbishop Lefebvre's patron saint. May the Archbishop welcome him into Heaven!

I don't know if I will be able to go to his funeral, as I am not vaccinated, but I will do everything for that and I invite all those who can to go and, in the meantime, to pray for the repose of his soul and for the priests who courageously took his place.

Father François Pivert

B from A · « **Reply #5 on:** January 25, 2022, 06:20:00 PM »

Thank you, Sean, for the information in this thread.

May he rest in peace.

SeanJohnson · « **Reply #6 on:** January 25, 2022, 06:23:57 PM »

Death of Father Epiney, parish priest of Riddes
1/19/22
https://sedevacantisme.wordpress.com/2022/01/19/deces-de-m-labbe-epiney-cure-de-riddes/

"Tomorrow will be the funeral of Father Epiney, parish priest of Riddes, near Ecône, confessor and very close friend of Archbishop Lefebvre. He was known for his fidelity and his refusal to compromise with the Conciliar Church.

He had recently opposed the arrival of "Archbishop" Huonder in the SSPX (ordained in the new rite) in a sermon on May 26, 2019.

https://gloria.tv/audio/7PFVUhA4ygLy4tcLLfnXAa2j4

So far, no SSPX website has announced either the death or the funeral of this courageous fighter for the faith...

Death of Father Pierre Epiney, parish priest of Riddes and friend of Archbishop Lefebvre

https://gloria.tv/post/nxmfijifcgsW277xus4RXkBqg

RIP
https://csrb.fr/blogs/infos/deces-de-m-labbe-epiney-cure-de-riddes"

SeanJohnson · « **Reply #7 on:** January 25, 2022, 06:28:29 PM »

Bishop Fellay served as Fr. Epiney's altar boy as a child.

Marion · « **Reply #8 on:** January 25, 2022, 07:13:22 PM »

Quote from: SeanJohnson on January 25, 2022, 06:23:57 PM

Riddes, near Ecône

Ecône is a hamlet within the municipality of Riddes.

Ladislaus · « **Reply #9 on:** January 25, 2022, 07:45:54 PM »

bodeens · « **Reply #10 on:** January 25, 2022, 07:50:27 PM »

Matthew · « **Reply #11 on:** January 25, 2022, 07:56:24 PM »

Thank you, Sean, for passing along the news. Since I am grateful for your posting of this (sad) news, which I appreciate knowing, I upvoted your post. Not because I am glad Fr. Epiney has passed on to his reward -- far from it. The world and the Church lost a faithful, fervent priest. The world just became a slightly worse place overall.

R.I.P.

StLouisIX · « **Reply #12 on:** January 25, 2022, 10:03:46 PM »

SeanJohnson · « **Reply #13 on:** January 25, 2022, 10:08:15 PM »

An Unsung Hero: Father Pierre Epiney RIP

https://gloria.tv/post/3qJAbAWG3beYANsHSaes6GEqa

Father Pierre Epiney of Riddes, Switzerland, a friend of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, passed away January 15 around 7:00 am.

It was in Ecône – a hamlet belonging to Riddes – where Archbishop Lefebvre founded his seminary. Epiney was instrumental to make this happen. Sion Bishop Nestor Adam (+1990) approved.

Adam had ordained Epiney a priest in 1961. A free and youthful spirit, Epiney quickly realised that things went wrong after Vatican II. When in 1967 he was appointed the parish-priest of Riddes, a town not known for its faith, he refused to introduce the Novus Ordo. Therefore Bishop Adam (+1990) started persecuting him.

The young priest was forced to build his own church in Riddes to which he attached an old people’s home. His break with the Society of Saint Pius X came when he opposed their attempts to rally with Rome.

Epiney has been ill for a long time. Covid accelerated his end. He was on oxygen and a drip for several days and died in his presbytery.

For Epiney’s 25 anniversary of priesthood Archbishop Lefebvre said in a homily, “Thanks to you, dear Father, the [Canton of] Valais is still Catholic.” Requiescat in pace.

Anne Evergreen · « **Reply #14 on:** January 25, 2022, 11:26:07 PM »

RIP Father.

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