Author, U: Saint Louis, King of France, 1215-1270 (Classic R

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In after years, the holy King whose life we are writing loved to Sign himself in private letters Loys de Poissy.

It was at Poissy, he explained to his friends, that I received the greatest honour of my life; for the grace of Baptism is the most precious of all God's gifts, and the title of Chris tian the very highest of dignities.

From the earliest dawn of reason, he learnt at his mother's knee that he must live as befits a Child of God and Heir to the Kingdom of Heaven.

Fair Son, she often told him, I love you - God knows how dearly! Yet I would rather see you dead at my feet than know you to be sullied with one single mortal sin.

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