 Entrusting to her the management of his estates, he lived for a time as a hermit in a cave.He used his inheritance to found in the 564/572 monastery of Atane (Attane) on land from his villa Attanum on the rivers Loue and Couchou in Limousin (Haute-Vienne).He became an abbot in the monastery, and the first monks were members of his own household.