Growing up Aulagnier attended the
Clermont Auvergne University, and was then accepted in the
Pontifical French Seminary. He was then ordained for the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Clermont. Being heavily opposed to the
Second Vatican Council, Aulagnier became acquainted with fellow Vatican II critic
Marcel Lefebvre. When Lefebvre founded the
Society of Saint Pius X Aulagnier became one of Lefebvre's most loyal associates, being the superior general for the organization in central France from 1976 to 1994. Aulagnier was expelled from the Society of Saint Pius X in 2004, for having supported the agreement between the
Personal Apostolic Administration of Saint John Mary Vianney and the Vatican, going against his superiors. He subsequently helped found the
Institute of the Good Shepherd in 2006. One of the terms in the founding of the Institute of the Good Shepherd that was authorized by the Vatican was to exclusively use the
Tridentine Mass and for the organization to oppose many of the reforms of the
Second Vatican Council. In June 2019, Aulagnier bought the Saint-Paul convent in
Thiviers in
Périgord, abandoned for 20 years, to create a house for spiritual retreats and a training center for pre-seminarians who are part of the Institute of the Good Shepherd. Aulagnier died in 2021 from COVID-19 aged 78. == Views ==