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Keeping a promise he made while praying for recovery from a grave illness, Louis led the ill-fated Seventh and Eighth Crusades against the Muslim dynasties that controlled North Africa, Egypt, and the Holy Land. He was captured and ransomed during the Seventh Crusade, and later succumbed to dysentery during the Eighth Crusade.
21 paź 2024 · Crusades - Holy Land, France, King Louis IX: Louis IX of France ardently believed the Crusade to be God's work. In his first crusade Louis was captured and held for ransom. For the Eighth Crusade, the expedition went to Tunis, where he defeated Conradin. Louis IX's last Crusade embarked in July 1270.
18 sie 2018 · The Holy Stairs that Jesus climbed to reopen in a year. Outside of these relics associated with the passion of Jesus, Helena is also credited with bringing back relics of the “ holy crib ” and...
18 sie 2022 · The mother of Constantine the Great, St. Helena is believed to have restored many sites in the Holy Land, where she discovered the cross on which Christ died and other relics from his Passion,...
10 lip 2020 · Although the goal of Louis’s two Crusades was the liberation of Muslim-occupied Christian territory, the king treated his enemies with respect. His first Crusade, undertaken from 1248-1254, centered on Egypt.
St. Louis IX, King of France was born at Poissy on April 25, 1214. His parents were Louis VIII, King of France and Queen Blanche of Castile. He was Capetian king of France from 1226 to 1270. He led the seventh Crusade to the Holy Land in 1248-50.
25 sie 2020 · St. Louis participated in the Seventh and Eighth Crusades, dying in 1270 from pestilence while on the Eighth Crusade. Clearly, Louis had embraced “the Cross.”
