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Louis
was born in France in the thirteenth century. He succeeded as
heir to the throne under his mother’s guidance when he
was twelve years old and took full command when he was twenty-one.
He protected the Church from secular leaders, enforced strict
laws against blasphemy as well as having established the Sorbonne
and several monasteries during his forty-four year reign as
king. He was considered to be a loving husband to Margaret of
Provence and was father to eleven children. It is speculated
by historians that he embarked on, what were in reality, pointless
crusades to escape his overbearing mother, Blanche of Castile.
He was imprisoned on the first and then died of Dysentary on
the second at the age of fifty-six. Louis is also the patron
of barbers, builders, button makers, construction workers,
Crusaders, death of children, difficult marriages,
distillers, embroiderers, haberdashers, hairdressers, hair stylists,
kings, masons, needle workers, parenthood, prisoners, sculptors,
sick people, soldiers and stone masons. His feast
day is August 25. |
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