René Lefebvre

René Charles Joseph Marie Lefebvre (27 February 1879 – 4 March 1944) was a French factory-owner from Tourcoing, who died in the German concentration camp in Sonnenburg, in the Province of Brandenburg (today in Lubusz Province in western Poland), where he had been imprisoned by the German Gestapo because of his work for the French Resistance and British Intelligence. René Lefebvre was the father of French Roman Catholic archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, the founder of the international Traditionalist Catholic organisation Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X (SSPX).

Lefebvre was born in Tourcoing in Nord, in northern France in 1879, from a family which gave almost fifty of its members to the Church since 1738, including a cardinal, a few bishops and many priests and religious He was a devout Catholic who brought his children to daily Mass. In 1923, he advised two of his sons, Marcel and René, to begin studies for the priesthood at the French Seminary in Rome. Of his eight children, two became missionary Priests, three girls entered in different religious congregations and the other three founded large Catholic families.

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