Andrew of Longjumeau
ANDREW OF LONGJUMEAU
Dominican missionary and papal ambassador; b. Longjumeau, France, early 13th century; d. France, c. 1270. In 1238 King louis ix commissioned him to bring the Crown of Thorns back to France from Constantinople. Innocent IV made use of his proficiency in Oriental languages and sent him to negotiate the return of the Jacobite and Nestorian churches to unity with Rome. While on the Crusades with King Louis (1248–54) he went on a mission to the Great Khan at Karakorum to investigate his reported conversion to the Faith. In 1256 he was in Tunis working for the conversion of the Sultan, but sometime before 1270 he returned to France, where he died.
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[j. d. campbell]