In 744, he went to the Monastery of Fulda where he was ordained priest by Saint Boniface,[3] became a monk, and established himself in a cell at Solnhofen in Suabia.

It was written at the request of his friend Gundram, former court chaplain to Louis the Pious and nephew of the Fulda abbot (and later archbishop of Mainz) Hrabanus Maurus.

With the permission of Bishop Altuin of Eichstätt, he raised Sola's bones and reburied them in the northern aisle of the basilica.

"Ermenrich knew almost nothing about the saint, but turned his biography into a political and ecclesiastical tool to legitimize Sualo's hermitage and its important place in Carolingian-era missions.

[6] The Vita Suaolonis was later printed by Luc D'Achery, and in Jean Mabillon's Acta Sanctorum Ordinis S. Benedicti, III, ii.