Saint Louis IX

Born 25 April 1214 at Poissy, France Died • 25 August 1270 at Tunis (in modern Tunisia) of natural causes • relics in the Basilica of Saint Denis, Paris, France • relics destroyed in 1793 during the French Revolution Canonized 1297 by Pope Boniface VIII Patronage • against the death of children • barbers • bridegrooms • builders • button makers • construction workers • Crusaders • difficult marriages • distillers • embroiderers • French monarchs • grooms • haberdashers • hairdressers • hair stylists • kings • masons • needle workers • parenthood • parents of large families • passementiers • prisoners • sculptors • sick people • soldiers • stone masons • stonecutters • tertiaries • trimming makers • Québec, Québec, archdiocese of • Saint Louis, Missouri, archdiocese of • Versailles, France, diocese of • Blois, France • Carthage, Tunisia • La Rochelle, France • New Orleans, Louisiana • Oran, Algeria • Saint-Louis, Haut-Rhin, France • Saint Louis, Missouri, city of • Versailles, France • Congregation of the Sisters of Saint Louis Representation • crown • crown of thorns • king holding a cross • king holding a crown of thorns • nails