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Black Lives Matter protestors also want St. Louis, Missouri to change its name. St. Louis IX is the only king of France to be canonized, and is known for ending trial by combat and replacing it with trial by jury.

By Paul Smeaton, LifeSiteNews, June 29, 2020

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Paul SmeatonST. LOUIS, Missouri, June 29, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — A Catholic priest in Missouri addressed hundreds of angry protestors while defending a statue of St. Louis in the city named after the sainted king on a day when Catholic laity praying at the statue were physically attacked by protestors.

Father Stephen Schumacher, a priest of the Archdiocese of St. Louis, joined Catholic laity in Forest Park on Saturday who placed themselves between the already vandalized statue and activists calling for it to be torn down.

Attempting to inform the protestors of the character and virtue of St. Louis, Schumacher said, “St. Louis was a man who willed to use his kingship to do good for his people.”