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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 .
2009: Photograph of St Mungo's Parish Church, Google Maps (Street View) 1990: Painting of the old church ruins, BBC & Public Catalog Foundation; 1949: Aerial photograph showing St Mungo's Parish Church, Britain from Above; 1928: Aerofilm showing St Mungo's Parish Church, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS)
Upon awakening, St. Mungo was able to miraculously light a new fire from the tree branch. [6] The bird referred to in the poem is a robin which was tamed by St. Mungo's teacher, St.Serf which was revived by St. Mungo after it was killed by some of his classmates. [6] Three fish are depicted in the coat of arms, each with a ring in its mouth.
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 first wife called "queen" in Scottish sources is the Anglo-Saxon and German princess Margaret, the wife of Malcolm III, which may have been a title and status negotiated by her relatives. She was a major political and religious figure within the kingdom, but her status was not automatically passed on to her successors, most of whom did not ...
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.