Jim - This is something I've worked through. Louis of Toulouse really
displaces Louis of France in Franciscan devotion, but it is indeed on his
coattails that Louis of France makes it down to Italy, especially Angevian
Italy. (BTW, Louis of Toulouse, I believe, dies in 1299, two years after
Louis of France's canonization). YOu're absolutely correct though, that
the Angevians LOVED having two Saint Louis(pl) in their lineage. The
problem was that Louis of Toulouse' feast day is Aug 19 and Louis of
Franices is Aug 25 and they were in a sense redundant -- Two Capetian
Saint Louis known for having renounced the trappings of kingship for
mendicant virtue with feast days within the same week just seemed
unnecessary, and since SLT actually did this "more so" than SLF the order
opted for the former. Its clear if you look at Franciscan Breviaries and
sermon collections that SLT just pushes out SLF.
For whatever it's worth...
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000 [log in to unmask] wrote:
> I don't suppose there could be some confusion in all of this between
> St Louis the King and St Louis of Toulouse, who was an equally
> "political" saint and who died in 1297, the very year Louis IX was
> canonized, although he was only himself canonized by Boniface VIII's
> successor, John XXII, in 1317. Louis of Toulouse's connections
> with both the Franciscans and with Naples would certainly seem to be
> more appropriate for Italian mendicant manuscripts than the other St
> Louis, even if Louis IX's entrails were buried in Sicily, at
> Monreale.
> Jim Bugslag
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