Brewer's: Louis

(St.) is usually represented as holding the Saviour's crown of thorns and the cross, sometimes, however, he is represented with a pilgrim's staff, and sometimes with the standard of the cross, the allusion in all cases being to his crusades.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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