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for, before Saint Louis' body could be brought back to France, problems conserving it made it necessary for his innards to be left in Sicily. When
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at the place where this prince died. We commit ourselves to respect and to make respected this monument consecrated by the King of France to the memory of one of his most illustrious ancestors.
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The church is home to artefacts, such as a monument in onyx holding the reliquary of Saint Louis, and mosaics of Saint
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The consul charged his son Jules with this duty, who concluded that the chapel ought to be built on Byrsa Hill, in the centre of the Punic acropolis, where the temple of
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