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Converted from Judaism to Catholicism in 1823, Drach explains his conversion in several works in which he draws upon the Kabbalah to develop his traditionalistic catholic apologetic. Others, such as E. Boré, J.-S. Devoucoux, J.-E. de Mirville and Jean de Pauly, followed his example, but it was especially the influential Jesuit theologian G. Perrone who, already in 1835 but particularly in 1870, appealed to Drach’s kabbalistic developments in order to demonstrate Christ’s messiahship and divinity by setting the Kabbalah alongside wide-ranging authorities. After him, the apologetic appeal to the Kabbalah disappeared mainly because of the rise of antijudaistic Catholicism, the hijacking of the Kabbalah by occult sciences, the marginalisation of catholic traditionalism and the new directions theology and apologetics were taking.