Evreux today celebrates the Great King St. Louis IX (1214-1270), one of the benefactors of the city. In October 1259, he came to the abbey of St. Taurin, then led by Abbot Gilbert of St. Martin, on the occasion of the coronation of Raoul Grosparmi, appointed bishop of Evreux. Then he installed the Jacobins, who, grateful, were the first religious of France to devote a church after her canonization in 1297. It is one of the bosses side of the diocese. A Street and the municipal cemetery bearing his name, a chapel in the cathedral dedicated to him. This festival is also an opportunity to commemorate the liberation of Evreux, 22 and 23 August 1944, after four years of occupation by the National Socialist German troops.
St. Louis, the Sacré-Coeur de Montmartre.
Prayer of St. Louis for France
God Almighty and eternal, q ui have established the empire of the Franks to be the world instrument Your divine will, the e sword and shield of Your holy Church, we pray, tell Your always and everywhere heavenly light, son are supplicants of the Franks, so they see what it takes to realize your reign in this world, e does that to accomplish what they saw, they are filled with love, strength and perseverance, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
(Prayer taken from a missal Carolingian p favorite career of Father de Foucauld)
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