Baring-Gould’s sources: Venerated chiefly at Ltege and Maestricht. In the additions to Usuardus, Molanus. Modem Roman Martyrology. Authorities: — An ancient Life written not long after the death of S. Theodard, and perfectly trustworthy.1 An Elogium by Anselm of Li£ge, A.D. 1056, and a Life by Sigt bert of Gemblours (end of nth cent.) are not reliable.] S. Theodard, the disciple of S. Remade, Bishop of Maestricht, succeeded his master and friend in that see, when S. Remade resigned his pastoral staff, that he might proved a worthy successor, he built and restored churches, 1 This life begins with a wonderful preface which describes the creation of the world, and leads rapidly up from that period to S. Theodard. [Sept. io.

Land supervised religion in his diocese with great conscientiousness. He is described to us as a man of a joyous spirit, always bright and cheerful, yet ready with great tenderness to mingle his tears with those who suffered. His activity extended to the temporal concerns of his diocese. Some powerful men had, he ascertained, taken possession of lands which rightly belonged to the Church. For some time he hesitated whether to compel restitution, or to take no notice of the circumstance. But considering that the goods were not his own, and that he was a steward responsible for them to his successors, he resolved to visit the king, Sigebert of Burgundy, and reclaim the lands wrested from the see.

On his way, his convoy was attacked by a gang of freebooters in the dense forest of Bienwald near Hoenau, on the left bank of the Rhine opposite Karlsruhe. The pedantic biographer puts a long oration into the mouth of the bishop, in which he addressed the bandits. They replied, according to the same authority, with a quotation from Horace, to the effect that death is common to all, that it shakes down the palaces of the wealthy and the cabins of the poor alike, and a blow of a hatchet brought the quotation home. The body was translated by S. Lambert to Li£ge.