Saint Louis IX (1214-1270), King of France, governed with justice and charity, building hospitals, feeding the poor at his own table, and reforming the law. A devoted husband and father of eleven and a Franciscan tertiary, he led two crusades and died of plague near Tunis. He is the patron of France.

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• France
• rulers
• the Secular Franciscan Order

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