 The demonologist Pierre de Lancre ( 1553 – 1631 ) boasted that even dead French monarchs could heal ; it was , indeed , still believed in the 16th century that the healing power was retained by Saint Louis IX 's arm , preserved in Poblet Monastery in Catalonia . In order to be touched by the French king , people traveled from as far off as the present @-@ day Italy and Spain already in the 13th century . The foreigners were ranked in a specific order , with the Spanish taking precedence over all others and the king 's own subjects coming last . 
