Eighth Crusade, 1270

Louis IX led one more brief and ill-destined expedition, in 1270, known as the Eighth Crusade:

... Sixty thousand men constituted the expedition, but disaster was its predestined portion. The camp was scarcely pitched on the site of Carthage when the plague broke out. Among the victims was the king's son, John Tristan, born at Damietta, and the king himself. Louis died with a resignation accordant with the piety which had marked his life.... The night of August 24 his mind was upon Jerusalem, and starting up from his fevered sleep, he exclaimed, "Jerusalem! Jerusalem! we will go." His last words, according to the report of an attendant, were, "I will enter into thy house, O Lord, I will worship in thy holy sanctuary, I will glorify Thy name, O Lord."; The next day the royal sufferer passed to the Jerusalem above....
History of the Christian Church, by Philip Schaff, Volume V, Chapter 7, § 57

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