A grandson of King Clovis and of St Clotilda, he managed to escape to southern France when his uncles Childebert and Chlotar assassinated his two brothers. After living there for some years as a recluse, he returned to the neighbourhood of Paris and became a disciple of St Severinus.

Having been ordained to the priesthood at the request of the people, he did pastoral work for some years, and then retired with a group of saintly men to an abbey which he built at Nogent not far from Paris, and which has come to be called after him St Cloud. He ended his days at Nogent about the year 560 when he was about thirty-six years old.

Nailmakers have taken him as their Patron because of the French word 'cloud' meaning 'nail'. He is also the Patron Saint of the city and diocese of St Cloud, Minnesota.

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