MUNGO, SAINT, the popular name of St. Kentigern, one of the three great mission aries of the Christian faith in Scotland. St. Ninian (q.v.) converted the tribe] of the s.; St. Columba (q.v.) was the apostle of the w. and the n.; St. Kentigern restored or estab lished the religion of the Welidi or British people, who held the country between the Clyde on the n., and the furthest boundaries of Cumberland on the s. (see BRErTS AND SCOTS). He is mid to have been the son of a British prince, Owen ab Urien Rheged. and of a British princess, Dwynwen or Thenaw, the daughter of Llewddyn Lueddog of Dings Eiddyn, or Edinburgh. He was born about the year 514, it is believed at Culross, on the Forth, the site of a monastery then ruled by St. Serf, of whom St. Kentigern became the favorite disciple. It is said, indeed, that he was so generally beloved by the monastic brethren, that his baptismal name of Kentigern or Cyndeyrn, signifying " chief lord," was exchanged in common speech for Mungo, signifying '• ioveable ' or "dear friend." Leaving Cuirass, he planted a monastery at a place then called Cathures, now known as Glasgow, and became the bishop of the kingdom of Cumbria (q.v.). The nation would :teem to have been only partially converted, and the accession of a new kin.. drove St. Kentigern from the realm. He found refuge among the kindred people oeWales, and there, upon the banks of another Clyde, he founded another monastery and bishopric, which still bears.the liana his disciple, St Ample. licc5hed to Glasgow by a new king, Rydderech or Roderick the bountiful, Kentigern renewed his missionary labors, in which he was cheered by a visit from St. Columba, and dying about the year 601, was
buried where the cathedral of Glasgow now stands. His life has been often written. A fragment of a memoir, composed at the desire of Herbert, bishop of Glasgow, between 1147 and 1164, has been printed by Mr. Comm Innes in the J?igixtrtun Eprecopatres Was g uensk The longer life by Joceline of Furness, written about 1180, was published by Pinkerton in his Vita Antique, Sanctomm Scotiat. It appeals to two still older lives. The fame of St. Kentigern is attested by the many churches which still bear his name, as well in Scotland as in the n. of England. The church of Crosthwaite, where Southey is buried, is dedicated to him. The miracles which he was believed to have wrought were so deeply rooted in the popular mind, that some of them sprung up again in the 18th c. to grace the legends of the Cameronian martyrs. Others are by the armorial ensigns of the city of Glasgow—a hazel-tree whose frozen branches he kindled into a flame, a tame robin which he restored to life, a hand-bell which he brought from Rome, a salmon which rescued from the depths of the Clyde the lost ring of the frail queen of Cadyow. Nor is it St. Mungo only whose memory survives at Glasgow; the parish church of " St. Enoch" commemorates his mother, St. Thenaw; and it is not many years since a neighboring spring, which still bears her name, ceased to be an object of occasional pilgrimage.