Saint Meneleus (or Mauvier, Menele, Meneve, Menevius, Ménélée; died 720) was a French monk who founded the Menat Abbey.

[4] The monks of St Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate wrote in their Book of Saints (1921), Meneleus (Meneve) (St.) Abbot.

In his declining years he appointed as his successor Saint Savinien, a companion of his youth, and died A.D.

When he was of an age to be settled in the world, his parents obliged him to accept a ring sent him by a great lord of the country, named Baronte, as a token that he would marry his daughter; but to prevent this engagement he fled into Auvergne, and there received the monastic habit at the hands of Saint Chaffre, or Theofrede, who was then œconome of the monastery of Carmery or Cormeri, so called from its founder, Carmen, duke of that country, since called Saint Theofrede's or Chaffre's monastery, in Auvergne, four leagues from Puy, in Velay, whom he had met at Menat, and followed to this abbey.

Here he lived seven years, under the holy Abbot Eudo; then returned to Menat, seven leagues from Clermont: this monastery he built in such a manner as to have borne the name of its founder.