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Catholic archdiocese defends statue of King Louis IX, the namesake of St. Louis, who persecuted Jews
A day earlier, hundreds gathered by the statue in a park for protests defending and opposing it. (JTA) — The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis issued an emphatic defense of that city’s ...
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Should St. Louis take down the statue of its anti-Semitic namesake? Activists say yes.
The monument to the city’s namesake, the medieval French king Louis IX, depicts the king astride a horse, wearing a crown and a robe and holding a sword in his right hand. Erected 116 years ago ...