Editing Apostles of Infinite Love (section)

==History==
The Apostles of Infinite Love teach that they "were founded to preserve the traditional Catholic faith, which they thought was seriously threatened by the modernist developments in the [[Catholic Church|Roman Catholic Church]], where most [[Bishop|bishops]] and [[Priest|priests]] had [[Apostasy|apostatized]]."<ref name="Lundberg2022">{{cite web |last1=Lundberg |first1=Magnus |url=https://wrldrels.org/2020/06/07/apostles-of-infinite-love/ |title=Apostles of Infinite Love|publisher=World Religions and Spirituality Project |access-date=6 March 2022 |language=English}}</ref> Their centre is located at the Monastery of Magnificat of the Mother of God in [[St. Jovite, Quebec]].<ref name="Lundberg2022"/>

Frenchman Michel Collin (sometimes spelled Colin),<ref>Most easily available sources use the form "Collin", but "Colin" is found in a [http://www.lcdpu.fr/livre/?GCOI=27000100215130 summary] of the book ''Clément XV, prêtre lorrain et pape à Clémery'' by Antoine Delestre.</ref> born in the village of [[Béchy]] in 1905 and [[Ordination|ordained]] a priest in 1933. In 1935, he experienced a vision in which Christ himself consecrated him as a bishop.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lundberg |first1=Magnus |title=A Pope of their Own: El Palmar de Troya and the Palmarian Church |page=48 |date=2020 |publisher=Uppsala University |location=Uppsala |edition=Second}}</ref> He founded a community called the Order of the Mother of God (a name later changed to "Apostles of Infinite Love"), in response to the 1846 request made by the [[Blessed Virgin Mary]], as reported later by [[Mélanie Calvat]], one of the seers of [[Our Lady of La Salette]]. Throughout the 1940s, Collin claiming "direct orders from Christ, Collin founded a chain of ''foyers-cenacles'', small house communities, where a consecrated host was on display at all times", claiming that he was restoring "the [[house church]]es of the apostolic times".<ref name="Lundberg2022"/> In 1950, he "reported having had a grand vision that God the Father, who put a [[papal tiara]] on his head", later embracing the name Pope Clement XV.<ref name=Smoke>[https://books.google.com/books?id=8OL9tyvN5YcC Michael W. Cuneo: ''The Smoke of Satan: Conservative and Traditionalist Dissent in Contemporary American Catholicism'' (JHU Press, 1999)] {{ISBN|0-8018-6265-5}}, {{ISBN|978-0-8018-6265-6}}, pp. 121&ndash;134</ref> [[Pope Pius XII]] [[Loss of clerical state (Catholic Church)|laicized]] him in 1951.<ref>{{cite web |title=Pope Clement XV |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,904866,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081022085549/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,904866,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 22, 2008 |publisher=Time magazine |date=1971-03-15 |accessdate=2009-08-15}}</ref>

In 1952, Canadian Jean-Gaston Tremblay, along with Gilles de la Croix and Leónard du Rosaire, founded near [[Saint-Jovite, Quebec|Saint-Jovite]] in [[Quebec]], [[Canada]] a community under the name of the Congregation of Jesus and Mary with ecclesiastical approval from the Roman Catholic [[Archbishop of Montreal]] [[Paul-Émile Léger]].<ref name="Lundberg2022"/> He was previously a part of the [[Brothers Hospitallers of Saint John of God]].<ref name="Lundberg2022"/> Considering the religious community to be "too extreme", the archbishop's support waned and the brothers spent time searching for a permanent place to establish themselves.<ref name="Lundberg2022"/> In 1961, he met Michel Collin and the two decided to merge their communities into one called the Apostles of Infinite Love. Gregory stated that Colin was the man he saw in a vision he purportedly had twelve years prior, which had "the face of a future pope, chosen directly by God."<ref name="Lundberg2022"/> The following year Collin consecrated Tremblay a bishop.<ref name="Lundberg2022"/>

After the election of [[Pope Paul VI]] in the Catholic Church, Michel Collin denounced him as an [[antipope]].<ref name="Lundberg2022"/> The Saint-Jovite community grew rapidly in the first years of the [[Second Vatican Council]], exceeding 300 people in 1966.<ref name=Smoke/><ref name="Lundberg2022"/> Throughout the 1960s, the Apostles of Infinite Love protested against the changes in the Catholic Church, as well as the [[secularisation]] occurring in Canada, especially issues related to "the change of gender roles" and the "increasing number of schools and hospitals [that] moved from church to government."<ref name="Lundberg2022"/>

Since the 1960s, the Order of Magnificat of the Mother of God has accepted male and female [[Religious (Western Christianity)|religious]], who make vows of "[[Evangelical counsels|poverty, chastity, and obedience]]" and live under the Rule for the Apostles of the Latter Times, which they hold to be given by [[Our Lady of La Salette]] in 1846.<ref name="Lundberg2022"/>

In 1967, Collin claimed that he had been divinely instructed to bypass Tremblay as his designated successor; but in 1968, Tremblay claimed that he had mystically been made Pope under the name of Gregory XVII and, in the following year, Collin claimed that Tremblay was now Pope.<ref name=Smoke/> In France, Collin's movement broke up into different factions some years after his death in 1974.<ref>{{cite web|title=Clément XV — L'histoire résumée |url=http://www.gerard-collin.com/clement%20xv/histoire%20resumee.htm |publisher=Gérard Collin |accessdate=2009-08-15 |language=fr |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091001202542/http://www.gerard-collin.com/clement%20xv/histoire%20resumee.htm |archivedate=2009-10-01 }}</ref>

In [[Guadeloupe]], the Apostles of Infinite Love established two convents, including one at [[Pointe-à-Pitre]], which became a place of [[Christian pilgrimage|pilgrimage]] after a girl in 1977 claimed to see a [[Marian apparition]] from Our Lady of Tears that lamented apostasy in the Catholic Church.<ref name="Lundberg2022"/>

Since the 1970s, the Apostles of Infinite Love has established a presence in various parts of the globe, including Guadeloupe, [[Guatemala]], the [[Dominican Republic]], [[Italy]], [[France]], [[South Africa]], and the [[United States]].<ref name="Lundberg2022"/>

Its Antipope Gregory XVIII was crowned in 2012.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hierarchy – Magnificat |url=https://magnificat.ca/odm/en/hierarchy/ |access-date=2024-07-08 |website=magnificat.ca}}</ref>