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