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Tomb of St. Mungo in the crypt of Glasgow Cathedral. On the spot where Mungo was buried now stands the cathedral dedicated in his honour. His shrine was a great centre of Christian pilgrimage until the Scottish Reformation. His remains are said to still rest in the crypt. A spring called "St. Mungo's Well" fell eastwards from the apse.
St Mungo's Church is a Roman Catholic Parish Church in the Townhead area of Glasgow, Scotland. It was built in 1841, with later work done on the church in 1877, and designed by George Goldie . It is situated on the corner of Parson Street and Glebe Street, east of St Mungo's Catholic Primary School and west of the Springburn Road .
Teneu (or Thenew (Latin: Theneva), Tannoch, Thaney, Thanea, Denw, etc.) is a legendary Christian saint who was venerated in medieval Glasgow, Scotland.Traditionally she was a sixth-century Brittonic princess of the ancient kingdom of Gododdin (in what became Lothian) and the mother of Saint Mungo, apostle to the Britons of Strathclyde and founder of the city of Glas Ghu (Glasgow).
The church is named after Saint Mungo [1] (also known as Saint Kentigern), patron saint and founder of the city of Glasgow.It belongs to the Church of Scotland Presbytery of Stirling [2] and serves the parish of Alloa. [3]
In Strathclyde the most important saint was St Kentigern, whose cult (under the pet name St. Mungo) became focused in Glasgow. [10] In Lothian it was St Cuthbert , whose relics were carried across Northumbria after Lindisfarne was sacked by the Vikings before being installed in Durham Cathedral. [ 52 ]
He married 9 May 1837, Rachel Susan (born 15 June 1812, died 25 June 1894), daughter of William Farquhar, London, and had issue — Elizabeth, born 13 May 1838 (married (1) John Robertson, D.D., minister of St Mungo's, Glasgow : (2) Matthew Rodger, D.D., minister of St Leonard's)
The St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art is a museum of religion in Glasgow, Scotland.It has been described as the only public museum in the world devoted solely to this subject, [2] [3] although other notable museums of this kind are the State Museum of the History of Religion in St. Petersburg [4] and the Catharijneconvent in Utrecht.
Excavations at Glasgow Cathedral between 1988 and 1997 uncovered architectural fragments of this first stone cathedral beneath the floor of the present cathedral. The west front of the 1136 cathedral lay at the third pier of the existing nave and its east end included the area of St Mungo's tomb.