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 ...

So when the French king Louis IX, later Saint Louis, minted a large silver coin called a gros tournois, it became fashionable for prosperous people to turn them into brooches. "Most of the coin ...

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 ...

Few people in medieval England would have seen a live elephant, although there was one in the royal menagerie at the Tower of London between 1255 and 1257 - a gift from King Louis IX of France to ...