Theodulf of Trier

Saint Theodulf of Trier, a venerable father, was a hermit and died around 511 at Trier. He is venerated as a saint in the Western Church and remembered on 28 February, the day his relics were found, in the Western calendar.

According to the legend, he was born in Britain, the son of a prince. He vowed chastity and refused the marriage his parents had arranged, so his father sent him into exile. In the time when Clovis was king of the Franks, around 500, he came to Gaul and went on to Trier, where he was ordained priest and settled as a hermit in the ruins of the imperial palace. His brother Theoderic later followed him to Trier. He died in his hermitage.

In 1250 his bones were found in a chapel in the Kaiserthermen of Trier and kept in the Dominican church; after its secularization they passed to the Liebfrauenkirche in Trier. He is regarded as a protector against illnesses.