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St Mungo's Academy was founded by the Marist Brothers in 1858 at 96 Garngad Hill, [1] Glasgow to educate poor Catholic boys, largely Irish immigrants or their children. The school was named for the patron saint of Glasgow, Saint Mungo, and had ambitions to create a Catholic professional class by educating the boys to secondary level and prepare them for university studies.
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.
Pages in category "Catholic secondary schools in Glasgow" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. ... St Mungo's Academy; St Paul's High School ...
Church of St Mungo, Townhead. It is widely accepted that near the eastern edge of modern day Townhead, is where St Kentigern, also known as St Mungo, built his church by the banks of the Molendinar Burn and thus established Glasgow. Glasgow Cathedral, dedicated to St Mungo, is roughly situated where Mungo's original church once stood.
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.
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St Mungo, Glasgow: Glasgow: 1136: www.glasgowcathedral.org.uk ... Glasgow Cathedral Cathedral Church of St Mary the Virgin: Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway: 1871
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.