Majolus was very active in reforming individual communities of monks and canons; first, as a personal commission, requested and authorized by the Emperor or other nobility.

Later, he found it more effective to affiliate some of the foundations to the motherhouse at Cluny to lessen the likelihood of later relapse.

[3] Around 916, Majolus fled his family's estates near Rietz to stay with relatives at Mâcon due to the feudal wars.

In personal habits he was always kind, never telling lies, detraction or flattery, and he was severe against sinners, if it was necessary to call them to repent.

[7] He was sent with a fellow monk from Cluny to Rome, on one occasion, and on the return journey his companion became sick.

Majolus waited by the suffering monk for three days with much anxiety, and on the third night he dreamed that he saw a white-haired old man who said 'Why art thou cast down in idle grief?

However, Majolus dreamt that Benedict appeared to him and told him to accept the responsibility of the office and that this book would be his guide.

In 972 Majolus visited the Imperial Court in Pavia and returned through the alps by way of the Saint Bernard Pass[9] in Provence.

The Holy Roman Emperor Otto I had a good relationship with Majolus, as did his wife Adelheid of Burgundy.

In Pavia, around 980, Otto II and his mother, the dowager empress, were reconciled after years of being apart, in part through the efforts of Majolus.

He reformed San Giovanni Evangelista in Parma in 982, and the canons at Monte Celio in Pavia in 987.

[14] At some point between 966 and 990, King Conrad of Burgundy renounced all rights and gave Romainmôtier Priory to Abbot Majolus.

Majolus would appoint a prior to manage things in his absence, but not necessarily a monk of Cluny.

[15] In 989 Bruno of Roucy, Bishop of Langres, requested Majolus, to send monks to re-settle the Abbey of St. Benignus in Dijon, grown decadent, as a Cluniac house.

Cluny's wealth and property grew as people donated gave gifts of land, churches, and other valuables.

He was not extreme in asceticism, whenever he sat down at table with the rich or powerful, he would eat the same things they would; he wore decent clothes that were neither too shabby nor too expensive.

Majolus was said to have cured the sick, restored sight to the blind, healed those bitten by serpent, dogs or wolves, he also miraculously rescued people from death by drowning or fire.

Among the stories of miracles attributed to him, the following are here related: Once when Majolus was returning from Aquitaine, he decided to visit a monastery along the way and sent a messenger ahead of him to say he was coming.

However, the purveyor of the monastery told the monks to go down to the river and call on the name of Majolus, and when they did, they caught an enormously large salmon.

[21] One time several pilgrims returning from his tomb reached the Loire river and they could not cross it because the boat was on the other side, and the boatman refused to come over for them.

They called on the name of Majolus, and the boat crossed over by itself to them, waited for them to enter, and when they got in, it took them without being rowed to the other side of the river.

He retired to one of the smaller Cluniac houses where he devoted time to serving the brothers there by instruction, correction and inspiration.