PRAYERS FOR THE DEAD
Book VI.. Joseph-Francois Michaud .. Illustrated by Gustave Dore

History of the Crusades

Illus -79 Tissue

PRAYERS FOR THE DEAD

The return from the siege of Tunis. It was not the flag of victory, but a funeral pall that preceded the French warriors in their march. Funeral urns, the wreck of an army but lately so flourishing, a young sick prince, who had only escaped by a miracle the death that had swept away his family ---this was all that came back from the crusade ! The people came from all parts to meet the melancholy train ; they surrounded the young king, they strove to approach the remains of St. Louis, and it was made evident, by their pious propriety and their religious sadness, that the sentiments which led them there were not such as generally precipitate the multitude upon the steps of the masters of the earth. On the arrival of Philip in his capital, the bones and the heart of St. Louis were conveyed to the church of Notre Dame, where ecclesiatics sang the hymns of the service of the dead during the whole night. On the following day the funeral of the royal martyr was celebrated in the church of St. Denis. In the midst of an immense assemblage of all classes of the people, deeply affected by what they saw, the young monarch advanced, bearing on his shoulders the mortal remains of his father. He stopped several times on his way, and crosses, which were placed at every station, recalled, up to the last century, this beautiful picture of filial piety. - Book XV

*Notes; page 194 described.

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