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 ...

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

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 ...

The medieval Mongol archive, dating from the 13th century, had a profound influence on French maps and exploration.

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 ...