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Timoléon Cheminais de Montaigu was a French Jesuit pulpit orator. Biography. He was born in Paris on 3 January 1652; he entered the Society of Jesus at fifteen.
Abbé Nicolas Thyrel de Boismont (1715 [1] – 20 December 1786) was a French abbot and a pulpit orator. He became a cleric in 1730, [2] then in 1744 he was a canon at the Rouen Cathedral. [3] He was elected a member of the Académie Français in 1755. [4]
A pulpit orator is a Christian author, often a clergyman, renowned for their ability to write or deliver (from the pulpit in church, hence the word) rhetorically skilled religious sermons. In some universities , the title 'Orator' is given to the official whose task it is to give speeches on ceremonial occasions, such as the presentation of ...
Jean-Nicolas Beauregard (4 December 1733 – 27 July 1804) was a Jesuit preacher, pulpit orator and émigré priest following the French Revolution, when he fled to London. Biography [ edit ]
This met with great success, even beyond his students. His thematic emphasis on freedom provoked his critics, who charged him with perverting the youth. Lacordaire was reputed to be the greatest pulpit orator of the nineteenth century. [6] Lacordaire's preaching was not so much penitential as an exercise in apologetics.
The Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) calls Bossuet the greatest pulpit orator of all time, ranking him even ahead of Augustine and Chrysostom. The exterior of Harvard's Sanders Theater includes busts of the eight greatest orators of all time – they include a bust of Bossuet alongside such giants of oratory as Demosthenes, Cicero, and Chrysostom.
Jacques-Marie-Louis Monsabré (born 10 December 1827, Blois – died 21 February 1907, Le Havre) was a French Dominican, a celebrated pulpit orator. Life [ edit ]
He was one of the most prominent religious leaders in the United States during the mid- to late-19th century, equaled as a pulpit orator perhaps only by Henry Ward Beecher. He also preached to crowds in England. During the 1860s and 70s, Talmage was a well-known reformer in New York City and was often involved in crusades against vice and crime.