Theodoric of Mont d'Or

Saint Theodoric of Mont d'Or (also Thierry or Theudric) was a disciple of Saint Remigius and abbot of the monastery of Mont d'Or (Mont-⁠d'Hor) near Reims, now Saint-⁠Thierry, in France. He was born on 9 March in the district of Reims and reposed on 1 July 533. His father, Marquard, lived in debauchery, but Theodoric was brought up by Saint Remigius in learning and piety.

Married at the wish of his relatives, he persuaded his wife to embrace the virgin state, and he himself became a monk and abbot of the monastery that Remigius had founded on Mont d'Or. The story says that he sought the site of the monastery with a pious woman of Reims, Susanna, and took as a sign a white eagle circling above a hill. He was ordained priest and became famous for the many conversions wrought through his exhortations to repentance, among them his own father, who persevered in the monastic life until his death; his wife also withdrew to a convent. With Saint Remigius he turned a house of ill repute into a convent of virgins. It is said that King Theuderic, son of Clovis, was cured of an eye disease when the saint touched his eyes with oil, and that he later carried the saint's coffin at the funeral. The relics, hidden underground for fear of the Normans, were discovered in 976 and are kept in a silver shrine at Saint-⁠Thierry. He is commemorated on 1 July, as a saint of the West before the Great Schism (a saint of the undivided Church), by the New Calendar.