ST MENEVE, ABBOT - 22 JULY

ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY

Saints celebrated on the 22nd of July

Prayer to the Angels and the Saints

Heavenly Father, in praising Your Angels and Saints we praise Your glory, for by honouring them we honour You, their Creator. Their splendour shows us Your greatness, which infinitely surpasses that of all creation.

In Your loving providence, You saw fit to send Your Angels to watch over us. Grant that we may always be under their protection and one day enjoy their company in heaven.

Heavenly Father, You are glorified in Your Saints, for their glory is the crowning of Your gifts. You provide an example for us by their lives on earth, You give us their friendship by our communion with them, You grant us strength and protection through their prayer for the Church, and You spur us on to victory over evil and the prize of eternal glory by this great company of witnesses.

Grant that we who aspire to take part in their joy may be filled with the Spirit that blessed their lives, so that, after sharing their faith on earth, we may also experience their peace in heaven. Amen.

ST MENEVE, ABBOT

Saint Meneve was born in Anjou, of a family allied to the Emperor Charlemagne. From his infancy it was his only ambition to serve Christ with his whole heart. 

HE FLED INTO AUVERGNE

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 St Chaffre, or Theofrede, of the monastery of Carmery or Cormeri, so called from its founder, Carmen, duke of that country, since called St 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. 

HE GOVERNED THE MONASTERY FOR MANY YEARS

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. He governed it for many years with great sanctity, and died in 720. He is honoured with singular veneration in Auvergne and Anjou, and mentioned by Usuard on July 22. 

(From Fr Butler's Lives of the Saints - 📷 At St Theofrede's Monastery)