Baring-Gould’s sources: Galilean and Modern Roman Martyrologies. Usuardus, Maurolycus, &c. Authorities: — A life by Flodoard, in his history of the church of Rheims, written about A. D. 966; and an earlier life published by Mabillon and the Bollandists, from which Flodoard probably drew most of his information.] Theodoric, or Theudric, son of Marquard of Anancourt, or Alamannd, as the place was then called, near Rheims, 1 “Serranos vero puHcem in os ejus profuit;" perhaps it was his thumb, “poUkem," and not a flea, “ pulicem.”

[July i. was brought up by S. Remigius [bishop of Reims who baptized Clovis, king of the Franks], and as soon as he was of age, was married by the advice of his parents to a girl of suitable rank. But Theodoric at once informed his bride that his purpose was to live as a monk, and she, in disgust, left him.

Theodoric then applied to Susanna, a venerable woman at Rheims, who was regarded as a proficient in the religious life, and asked her to give him advice. She recommended him to seek out a spot on the forest-grown Mont d’Or, near Rheims, where he might build a monastery. He went into the forest with Susanna, and saw a white eagle circling round the top of one of the hills, and took that as an indication of the site of his monastery. 1 He had the satisfaction of seeing his father Marquard embrace the religious life under him, and not less to hear that his bride, who really had been passionately attached to him, unable to bear the thoughts of an union with anyone else, after having given her young heart to Theodoric, had retired from the world into the cloister. King Thierry, son of Clovis, is said to have been cured of ophthalmia by the saint touching his eyes with oil. His relics [the bodily remains of a saint, or objects they used, kept with honor] are preserved at S. Thierry, near Rheims.