Glasgow's St Mungo: Life and legacy of the man who made the city
HE WAS the man who made Glasgow, our first bishop and our patron saint. St Kentigern or St Mungo was born in the sixth century and he died in Glasgow on January 13, 614. The process of adopting St Mungo as our patron saint began some 600 years after his death. This was a milestone period in the city’s history, when it became a Burgh and a major episcopal centre, and when Glasgow Cathedral was founded. In about 1115 the Glasgow diocese was re-established, making it an episcopal centre of an enormous, sprawling diocese, spreading to the border of England and including Cumbria. The fir...
Source: glasgowtimes.co.uk