Saint of the Day Online - St Louis King of France
Saint of the day online, Friday, August 25, 2017
22-08-2017
Saint Name: St Louis IX
Place:Poissy, France.
Birth:1214
Death: 1270
Feast: August 22
St Louis IX (25 April 1214–25 August 1270), also called Saint Louis, was King of France from 1226 to his death. He established the Parlement of Paris. After his death, he was canonized (declared a saint) in 1297 by Pope Boniface VIII.
St. Louis, King of France, patron of Tertiaries, was the ninth of his name. He was born at Poissy, France, in 1214. His father was Louis VIII, and his mother was Blanche, daughter of Alfonso VIII of Castille, surnamed the Conqueror. At the age of twelve, he lost his father, and his mother became regent of the kingdom. From his tenderest infancy, she had inspired him with a love for holy things.
Jean de Joinville was a close friend of Louis and wrote a famous biography of the king, from which we have most of our information about him.
On May 27, 1234, Louis married Marguerite of Provence (1221 – December 21, 1295), whose sister Eleanor was the wife of Henry III of England.
The cities of San Luis Potosí in Mexico, Saint Louis, Missouri, Saint-Louis du Sénégal in Senegal, Saint-Louis in Alsace, Lake Saint-Louis in Quebec, and the Mission San Luis Rey de Francia in California.
Many places in Brazil are called São Luís in Portuguese are named after Saint Louis.
In 1234, he married Margaret, the virtuous daughter of Raymond Berenger, Count of Provence, and two years later he took the reins of government into his own hands. In 1238, he headed a crusade, in which he fell a prisoner among the Mohammedans, but a truce was concluded and he was set free and he returned to France. In 1267, he again set out for the East at the head of a crusade but he never again beheld his native land. In 1270, he was stricken by the pestilence at the siege of Tunis, and after receiving the Last Sacraments, he died.
Saint Louis IX feast day is on the 25 of August.