There is also a later 'life', based on Jocelin, by John of Tynemouth. Hagiographic life Mungo's mother, Thenaw , also known as St. Thaney , was the daughter of the Brythonic king, Lleuddun Latin, Leudonus , who ruled in the Haddington region of what is now Scotland , probably the Kingdom of Gododdin in the Old North.
She fell pregnant, after being seduced by Owain mab Urien according to the British Library manuscript. Her furious father had her thrown from heights of Traprain Law.
Surviving, she was then abandoned in a coracle in which she drifted across the River Forth to Culross in Fife. There Mungo was born. Mungo was brought up by Saint Serf who was ministering to the Picts in that area. It was Serf who gave him his popular pet-name. At the age of twenty-five, Mungo began his missionary labours on the Clyde , on the site of modern Glasgow. Christianity had been introduced to the region by Saint Ninian and his followers welcomed the saint and procured his consecration by an Irish bishop.
He built his church at the confluence of the Clyde and the Molendinar Burn , where the present medieval cathedral now stands. For some thirteen years, he laboured in the district, living a most austere life in a small cell and making many converts by his holy example and his preaching.
A strong anti-Christian movement in Strathclyde, headed by a certain King Morken, compelled Mungo to leave the district, and he retired to Wales, via Cumbria, staying for a time with Saint David at St David's , and afterwards moving on to Gwynedd where he founded a cathedral at Llanelwy now St Asaph.
While there, he undertook a pilgrimage to Rome. He decided to go and appointed Saint Asaph as Bishop of Llanelwy in his place. For some years, Mungo fixed his Episcopal seat at Hoddom in Dumfriesshire , evangelising thence the district of Galloway.
He eventually returned to Glasgow where a large community grew up around him, becoming known as "Clas-gu" meaning the 'dear family'. It was nearby, in Kilmacolm , that he was visited by Saint Columba , who was at that time labouring in Strathtay. The two saints embraced, held long converse, and exchanged their pastoral staves. In old age, Mungo became very feeble and his chin had to be set in place with a bandage. He is said to have died in his bath, on Sunday 13 January.
He fell asleep and the fire went out. Taking branches from a tree, he restarted the fire. It was said to have been used in services and to mourn the deceased. Handbells were common in the Celtic church and were used to call the people to worship. But the Queen gave it to a knight who promptly lost it. Some versions of the story say that the King took the ring while the knight was asleep and threw it in the river.
The King then demanded to see the ring — threatening death to the Queen if she could not produce it. The knight confessed to Saint Mungo who sent a monk to catch a fish in the River Clyde. When this was brought back, Saint Mungo cut open the fish and found the ring.
Today the bird, the tree, the bell and the fish form the four elements of the crest of Glasgow City Council. Mungo later returned to the River Clyde, where his church became the focus of a large community that became known as Clas-gu or "dear family".
From these beginnings emerged the modern city of Glasgow. It was at Clas-gu that Mungo was visited by Saint Columba, who at the time was working as a missionary in central Scotland. It was here, too, that Mungo died, apparently in his bath or while giving a baptismal service: interpretations differ , on Sunday 13 January He was buried close by his church, and today his tomb lies in the centre of the Lower Choir of Glasgow Cathedral, probably on the actual site of his grave.
In order to make someone a Saint, it was necessary to proved that the candidate had performed miracles during their lifetime. St Mungo was said to have preformed four, referred to in a poem:. Here is the bird that never flew Here is the tree that never grew Here is the bell that never rang Here is the fish that never swam. In the first, he is said to have restored life to the pet robin of St Serf, which had been killed by some of his fellow classmates in Culross, hoping to blame him for its death.
In the second he used branches of a tree to restart a fire at St Serf's monastery that had gone out because Mungo had fallen asleep while he was meant to be watching it. The third relates to a miraculous bell he brought back with him from Rome.
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