Jacques-Marie-Louis Monsabré

Jacques-Marie-Louis Monsabré (born 10 December 1827, Blois – died 21 February 1907, Le Havre) was a French Dominican, a celebrated pulpit orator.

He had to wait four years for release from the diocese, as the bishop had received authorization from the Holy See to withhold that long his permission for newly ordained priests to enter a religious order.

The success of these conferences brought the invitation to preach the Lenten sermons in Notre Dame in 1870, succeeding Célestin Joseph Félix of the Society of Jesus.

Meanwhile, the archbishop of Paris, Georges Darboy, had fallen a victim to the Commune and was succeeded by Joseph-Hippolyte Guibert, who lost no time in inviting Monsabré to occupy the pulpit of his cathedral.

"His intense love of souls and apostolic zeal made his discourses throb with life, and his clear and profoundly theological mind enabled him to shed light even upon the most abstruse tenets of the faith, while his earnest and impassioned appeals to all the noblest impulses of man always met with an enthusiastic response."

Monsabré's published works consist of forty-eight volumes, the L'exposition du Dogme Catholique being noted for its eloquence and popular exposition of Catholic dogma.