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Michael Davies

Michael Treharne Davies (13 March 1936 – 25 September 2004) was a British teacher, and traditionalist Catholic writer of many books about the Catholic Church following the Second Vatican Council. From 1992 to 2004 he was the President of the international Traditionalist Catholic organisation Foederatio Internationalis Una Voce and was responsible for the unification of Una Voce America.Davies was born to Cyril and Annie (née Garnworthy) Davies. His father, a Welshman, was a Baptist, and his mother, who was English, was an Anglican. Davies was brought up in Yeovil, Somerset, but proud of his Welsh descent. He served as a regular soldier in the Somerset Light Infantry during the Malayan Emergency, the Suez Crisis, and the EOKA campaign in Cyprus.Davies was a Baptist who converted to Catholicism while still a student in the 1950s. Initially he was a supporter of the Second Vatican Council. He later supported the French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, founder of the Society of St. Pius X, and declined to retract that support after Lefebvre illicitly consecrated four bishops in 1988 against the wishes of John Paul II'>Pope John Paul II, which some said "sanitised" Lefebvre.William D. Dinges, Professor of Religion and Culture at The Catholic University of America, describes Davies as "[i]nternationally, one of the most prolific traditionalist apologists".Davies was a critic of the alleged apparitions at Medjugorje, which he believed to be false. He was also critical of the liturgical changes that followed Vatican II, which he argued were a result of misreadings.He died on 25 September 2004, aged 68, following a battle with cancer. His funeral was in St. Mary's, Chislehurst, Kent. He was survived by his wife, Marija.