Saint Louis: Christ’s Tragic Hero

A city is sacked, pilgrims are slaughtered, and a king rises from a deathbed with one decision that will define the rest of his life. We close the week by walking through the story of Saint Louis IX, the Crusade-era French king who aimed himself at Jerusalem and refused to apologize for it, even when everything went sideways. We trace the Seventh Crusade from meticulous preparation to the shock of plague, failure, and capture by Mamluk forces in Egypt. The detail that stops us cold is what h...