20 Facts About Saint Mungo

Particularly in Scotland, he is known by the pet name Saint Mungo, possibly derived from the Cumbric equivalent of the Welsh: fy nghu 'my dear '.

The Life of Saint Mungo was written by the monastic hagiographer Jocelyn of Furness in about 1185.

Saint Mungo's mother Teneu was a princess, the daughter of King Lleuddun who ruled a territory around what is Lothian in Scotland, perhaps the kingdom of Gododdin in the Old North.

At the age of twenty-five, Saint Mungo began his missionary labours on the Clyde, on the site of modern Glasgow.

Saint Mungo built his church across the water from an extinct volcano, next to the Molendinar Burn, where the present medieval cathedral now stands.

For some years, Saint Mungo fixed his Episcopal seat at Hoddom in Dumfriesshire, evangelising thence the district of Galloway.

Saint Mungo eventually returned to Glasgow where a large community grew up around him.

In old age, Saint Mungo became very feeble and his chin had to be set in place with a bandage.

Details of Saint Mungo's infirmity have a ring of authenticity about them.

The year of Saint Mungo's death is sometimes given as 603, but is recorded in the Annales Cambriae as 612.

Saint Mungo's shrine was a great centre of Christian pilgrimage until the Scottish Reformation.

Saint Mungo's remains are said to still rest in the crypt.

Glasgow's current motto Let Glasgow flourish by the preaching of His word and the praising of His name and the more secular Let Glasgow flourish, are both inspired by Saint Mungo's original call "Let Glasgow flourish by the preaching of the word".

Saint Mungo's Well was a cold water spring and bath at Copgrove, near Ripon, North Yorkshire, formerly believed effective for treating rickets.

Glasgow Fire Brigade named their fireboat St Saint Mungo, which served the around the Clyde from 1959 to 1975.

One of Arthur H Peppercorn's A1 Pacific locomotives was named Saint Mungo, entering service in 1949 and carrying the BR number 60145.

Saint Mungo founded a number of churches during his period as Archbishop of Strathclyde of which Stobo Kirk is a notable example.

St Saint Mungo's Academy is a Roman Catholic, co-educational, comprehensive, secondary school located in Bridgeton, Glasgow.

Saint Mungo is the main antagonist in the historical novel The Lost Queen by Signe Pike.

Saint Mungo is the name of the main character of Young Saint Mungo, novel by Booker Prize-winning writer Douglas Stuart.