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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 .
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]
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.
St Mungo is a civil parish in Dumfries and Galloway located to the south of Lockerbie. [1] Kettlehom is a small village in the parish and the village has a public hall which in the past has organised a Christmas fayre. [2] The Water of Milk river runs through St Mungo and the River Annan borders the parish to the south. [3]
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).
It was the site of the settlement, Mellingdenor, that grew to become the kernel of Glasgow, and where St Mungo founded his church in the 6th century. It was later used to power the growing town's mills and the name became adapted because the word "molendinar" means "relating to a mill or millers", [ 1 ] possibly because that is what the Welsh ...
St Mungo's in Alloa. James Pitt-Watson was born on 9 November 1893. He was educated at George Heriot's School, a private school in Edinburgh, Scotland. He studied and trained for ministry at the University of Edinburgh. [3] Pitt-Watson was ordained for the Church of Scotland in 1920. [3]
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.