Abbaye Saint-Thierry du mont d'Horprès près de Reims
Saint Thierry
Abbé près de Reims (+ 533)
Martyrologe romain
La Parole de Dieu sera ma nourriture. Ce n'est pas de
moi-même que je me promets une telle force. C'est vous, ô Jésus qui mettez ces
paroles dans ma bouche et qui m'accordez la grâce de les accomplir.
Saint Prosper d'Aquitaine
SOURCE : https://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/1422/Saint-Thierry.html
Saint Thierry et l’aigle
de Mont d’Hor
Disciple de saint Remi,
saint Thierry vécut au VIe siècle. Il est réputé pour guérir les âmes et les
corps.
par Défendente
Genolini
1er juillet
«Tel père, tel fils », dit le proverbe… qui
trouve pourtant sa superbe exception dans la vie de Thierry. En effet, notre
saint moine était le fils de Macard, un truand notable de la Marne, voleur et
brigand tout à la fois. Quand il est en âge de se marier, ses parents
l’obligent à épouser une jeune fille de leur connaissance. Mais telle n’est pas
l’idée du jeune homme qui a décidé de vivre dans la vie consacrée. Il demande
donc à sa jeune épouse de vivre comme frère et sœur, ce qu’elle refuse. Avec
l’appui de Mère Suzanne, l’abbesse du couvent voisin, il se rend chez Remi,
évêque de Reims et fait annuler son mariage forcé.
Conduit, dit la tradition champenoise, par le vol d’un aigle au lieu-dit « Mont
d’Hor », à deux lieues de Reims, il s’y établit et y bâtira un monastère car de
nombreux disciples se joignent à lui. Quelle n’est pas sa surprise de voir un
jour son propre père frapper à la porte et demander l’habit monastique. Il
vivra dans la pénitence pour expier ses nombreux forfaits au côté de son fils
qui, jadis, l’exaspérait par sa piété.
La réputation de Thierry ne cesse de grandir dans la région et trouve son
apogée quand, appelé à la cour de son homonyme Thierry Ier, roi
d’Austrasie et fils de Clovis, il lui fait une onction d’huile sur l’œil que
les médecins proposaient d’arracher. Menacé de devenir borgne, ce jeune roi se
lamentait : « Si je perds la moitié de mes yeux, je perds, du même coup,
la moitié de mon autorité sur mes guerriers ! » Pour cette guérison
éclatante, qui se fit par simple onction, les rois de France jusqu’à leur
suppression, au lendemain de leur sacre, se rendaient à l’abbaye de
Saint-Thierry pour y déjeuner. Un honneur qui traversa les siècles. Thierry
mourut le 1er juillet 533. Ses reliques sont toujours vénérées dans
l’église paroissiale rémoise.
Pensée spirituelle de Guillaume de Saint-Thierry, abbé du monastère de
Thierry au XIIe siècle
« Là où il y a contrainte, il n’y a plus de liberté ; là où il n’y a pas de
liberté, il n’y a pas de justice. »
Courte prière de Guillaume de Saint-Thierry
« Seigneur, le premier tu nous as aimés, et le premier tu aimes tous ceux qui
t’aiment. Nous, nous t’aimons par l’amour ardent que tu as mis en nous. »
Also known as
Thierri
Thierry
Profile
Priest.
Spiritual student of Saint Remigius
of Rheims. Founded the abbey at
Mont d’Or, France,
and served as the house’s first abbot.
Noted evangelist.
A healer,
he miraculously cured King Theodoric
of an eye
disease.
533 of
natural causes
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MLA Citation
“Saint Theodoric of Mont d’Or“. CatholicSaints.Info.
2 August 2018. Web. 1 July 2021. <https://catholicsaints.info/saint-theodoric-of-mont-dor/>
SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/saint-theodoric-of-mont-dor/
July 1
St. Thierri, Abbot
[Abbot of Mont-d’Hor, near Rheims.] HE was
born in the district of Rheims. His father, Marquard, was abandoned to every
infamous disorder. An education formed on the best Christian principles in the
house of such a person would more than probable be blasted by his bad example;
but our saint was happily removed, and educated in learning and piety, under
the edifying example of the holy Bishop Remigius.
He married in complaisance to his relations; but
easily persuaded his wife to embrace the virgin state; and becoming himself a
monk, he was made superior of an abbey founded by St. Remigius on Mont-d’Hor,
near Rheims. Some time after he received holy orders, and became famous by the
many extraordinary conversions he wrought through the zeal and unction
wherewith he exhorted sinners to repentance; among these was his own father,
who persevered to his death under the direction of his son. He succeeded also,
in conjunction with St. Remigius, in converting an infamous house into a
nunnery of pious virgins. According to the most common opinion, he died on the
1st of July, 533. It is said that King Thierri assisted at his funeral, and
esteemed himself honoured in being one of his bearers to the grave. His relics,
lest they should be exposed to the impiety of the Normans, were hidden under
ground, but discovered in 976, and are still preserved in a silver shrine. He
is mentioned on this day in the Roman Martyrology. See Mabillon, Act. t. 1. p.
614. Bulteau, Hist. de l’Ordre de St. Ben. t. 1. p. 287; Baillet ad 1. Jul. and
Gall. Christ. Nov. t. 9. p. 180.
Rev. Alban Butler (1711–73). Volume VII: July.The
Lives of the Saints. 1866.
SOURCE : https://www.bartleby.com/210/7/018.html
SAINT THIERRY DU MONT D'HOR
01 July - Saint Thierry or Thierry du Mont d'Hor was
the son of Lord Marcard, a famous highwayman. He would have been born in the
5th century or at the very beginning of the 6th century and would have died
around 533. On his wedding day, he discovered that he had a monastic vocation.
A marriage he did not contract of his own free will
but under pressure from his father. So he decided, against his wife's advice,
to go to the Archbishop of Rheims to undo his marriage. He first became a
cleric and then retired to a monastery he founded on the hill of Mont d'Hor,
which became Saint-Thierry near Rheims. Thierry was the first abbot and had the
joy of seeing his father who had converted to join him in monastic life.
His sanctity was soon known and many sick people
flocked to the monastery. It is even said that Thierry cured the sick eye of
Thierry I, son of Clovis I. This is why the kings of France had the custom
after their coronation to go to the abbey to eat there. This rite continued
long after the death of the saint in 533. He was buried by King Thierry I and
the bishops Hespérius of Metz, Nizier of Trier and Loup de Soissons
SOURCE : https://www.rdb.mg/en/programs/credo-en/saint-of-the-day/3583-saint-thierry-du-mont-d-hor-en.html
San Teodorico
di Mont-d'Or Abate
Etimologia: Teodorico = che sta a capo del
popolo, dall'anglosassone
Emblema: Bastone pastorale
Martirologio Romano: Presso Reims nel territorio
della Neustria, in Francia, san Teodorico, sacerdote, discepolo del vescovo san
Remigio.
