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As Joinville had been a close friend of the king, his counselor and his confidant, his testimony was invaluable to the inquest, where he appeared as a witness in 1282. At the request of Jeanne of Navarre, the queen, he began work on the Histoire de Saint Louis, which he completed in 1309. Joinville died on 24 December 1317, at the age of 93 ...
Much of what is known of Louis's life comes from Jean de Joinville's famous Life of Saint Louis.Joinville was a close friend, confidant, and counselor to the king. He participated as a witness in the papal inquest into Louis's life that resulted in his canonization in 1297 by Pope Boniface VIII.
Luigi Comollo's tomb in the Church of Saint Philip in Chieri. Luigi Comollo often anglicized as Louis Comollo (7 April 1817–2 April 1839) was a seminarian at the Seminary of Chieri of Archdiocese of Turin. He is well known for being an intimate friend of Saint John Bosco. One of the famous and first book of St. Bosco was the biography of Comollo.
John Joseph Vitale (May 17, 1909 – June 5, 1982) was a Sicilian-American boss and under-boss [1] of the St. Louis crime family. During his lifetime, Vitale was the boss of the St. Louis crime family .
Saint Louis is a 1996 biography of Louis IX of France by historian Jacques Le Goff. The book received positive reviews for its historical detail, and was awarded the 1996 Grand prix Gobert by the French Academy. It was also a best-seller. [2]
Campbell joined fur trader Jedediah S. Smith in an expedition leaving St. Louis for the Rocky Mountains on November 1, 1825. With the financial backing of William H. Ashley and his Rocky Mountain Fur Company, Smith assembled a group of sixty men, including experienced explorers and traders Hiram Scott, Jim Beckwourth, Moses Harris, and Louis Vasquez.
John Mullanphy (1758 – August 29, 1833) was an Irish immigrant to the United States who became a wealthy merchant in St. Louis and in Baltimore. He arrived in Philadelphia with his wife and child in 1792. He moved to the French frontier village of St. Louis in 1804.
John was known to have a temper, and involved himself in the politics and religious movements of many European countries in order to advance the interests of the papacy. He would routinely write to non-Catholic leaders asserting his authority over them. [10] On 7 April 1317, John canonized Louis of Toulouse with the papal bull Sol oriens.