Background
He was born in Paris in 1652 to the Marquis de Sabran of Provence, a French ambassador in London during the Commonwealth who visited the Catholic martyrs Ralph Corbie and John Duckett before their executions.
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In 1687 he was made the royal chaplain to James World War II He also entered into a controversy with William Sherlock, the Anglican theologian and Dean of Saint Paul"son He was the assumed author of Doctor Sherlock Sifted from his Bran and Chaff in 1687, which Sherlock answered. Sabran answered the reply with An Answer to Doctor Sherlock"s Preservative and then Doctor Sherlock"s Preservative Considered in 1688.
That same year he was made the chaplain to the infant Prince of Wales.
When the Glorious Revolution began, Sabran was responsible for getting the prince out of the country. They headed for Portsmouth, but he was then ordered to return to London before being allowed to escape.
He disguised himself as an attendant to a group of Polish nobles but was discovered by a crowd and beaten and imprisoned. He was freed from prison, however, by order of the king.
Sherlock coincidentally issued a reply to Sabran as the revolution was starting, entitled A Vindication: an Answer to the Cavils of Lewis Sabran.
After returning to France, Sabran was elected to be sent to Rome, Italy to the Vatican by the council of Watten in 1693. He was appointed visitator of the Neapolitan Jesuits, and represented his province at Rome in the congregation of 1693, when the case of Reverend González was discussed. In 1699, the Prince-Bishop of Liège made him the president of the seminary there to answer charges of Jansenism among the faculty.
The bishop had to enforce order with soldiers.
Once the crisis was passed, Father Sabran"s rule was successful, and he remained there until 1704. In 1708/09, he was made provincial superior.
A long-drawn and somewhat bitter controversy ensued. From 1712 to 1715 he was the headmaster of Saint Omer, where he maintained a devotion to Saint Melangell.
In 1717 he was made the spiritual father of the English College in Rome.
He died in Rome in 1732. The titles of his controversial tracts can be found in Sommervogel"s encyclopedia. He is alleged to have written a paper, Artes Bajanae (about 1701), against Jansenism.
