*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. On April 25, 1214, King Louis IX of France, the saint for whom the city is named, was born. The statue of St. Louis was unveiled ...

Giant equestrian statues: the City of St. Louis has more than its share of such sculptures. The recent controversy over the Confederate Memorial (yes, not an equestrian monument) shows that a monument ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ST. LOUIS — Protesters are calling for the ...

ST. LOUIS — The Archdiocese of St. Louis has released a statement in defense of the statue of King Louis IX that sits on Art Hill, amidst calls for it to be removed. Louis IX is St. Louis' namesake ...

The bronze statue in front of the museum says it all: Saint Louis, Louis IX, (1214-1270) the Crusader King on his mighty steed. Of course our city was named for him, to honor his future namesake Louis ...

About 200 people gathered in St. Louis as Black Lives Matter activists announced a promise to tear down a statue of King Louis IX of France, after whom the city is named, leading to a clash between ...

Two groups of dueling protesters in St. Louis, Mo., got into a heated debate over the weekend over whether to remove a statue of the city's namesake. A crowd of around 200 people gathered Saturday ...

It was August 1239, and Louis IX, king of France, was about to receive a precious gift from the emperor in Constantinople: the Sacred Crown of Thorns, purported to have been worn by Christ at the ...

Catholic officials say protesters calling for the removal of a statue of St. Louis' namesake should consider all that the imperfect man did to help the poor and the sick.The Archdiocese of St. Louis ...

Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski was installed this week as the tenth Archbishop of St. Louis, on the feast day of the city's namesake, Louis IX of France. The new archbishop challenged Catholics to put ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. On April 25, 1214, King Louis IX of France, the saint for whom the city is named, was born. The statue of St. Louis was unveiled ...