13 Facts About Clodoald

Clodoald found a hill along the Seine, two leagues below Paris, in a place called Novigentum.

Clodoald is venerated as a saint in both the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church.

Clodoald was the son of King Chlodomer of Orleans and his wife Guntheuc.

Clodoald was one of three brothers, raised in Paris by their grandmother, the Queen dowager Clotilde.

Only the youngest, Clodoald, was saved by the dedication of a few of the faithful.

Clodoald found sanctuary with Remigius, the Bishop of Rheims, and thus escaped his uncles' searches.

Clodoald replied that she would rather see them dead than sheared.

Clodoald renounced all claims to the throne and lived as a studious hermit and disciple of Severin of Paris, who led a solitary and contemplative life in a hermitage at the gates of Paris.

Clodoald preferred a humble and quiet life of solitude, to a bright, but perilous life in a royal palace.

At the age of twenty, Clodoald left his hermitage and appeared before the Bishop of Paris surrounded by religious and civic leaders and members of the royal family.

Clodoald remained there eleven years, and then went back to his first hermitage, where the people greeted his return with joy.

Clodoald lived seven years in his monastery, among his brothers, giving them an example of all the virtues.

Clodoald was then canonized and the hamlet quickly transformed into a place of pilgrimage, where huge crowds flocked.