A day earlier, hundreds gathered by the statue in a park for protests defending and opposing it. (JTA) — The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis issued an emphatic defense of that city’s ...

King Louis IX of France, who reigned in the 1200s, burned the Talmud and ordered the expulsion of his Jewish subjects. (JTA) — On top of a hill in front of an art museum in the biggest park in ...

In 1240, King Louis IX of France (also known as St. Louis) decided, without consulting the Jewish community, that the Talmud ...

In the north choir aisle of Westminster Abbey is a carved shield with the coat of arms of St Louis (Louis IX), King of France (1214-1270). The shield shows "azure, a semee de lys or" although there is ...

And in the 12th century, it became the home of Notre Dame cathedral and the royal chapel of Sainte-Chapelle which was built by King Louis IX, as well as the city’s first hospital, the Hôtel-Dieu.