Editing Saint Mungo (section)

==Life==
[[File:St Mungo's Chapel in Culross in March 2024.jpg|thumb|"St Mungo's Chapel" in [[Culross]]. The chapel occupies a site traditionally regarded as the birthplace of Mungo]]

Mungo's mother [[Teneu]] was a princess, the daughter of [[King Lot|King Lleuddun]] (Latin: Leudonus) who ruled a territory around what is now [[Lothian]] in Scotland, perhaps the kingdom of [[Gododdin]] in the [[Y Gogledd Hen|Old North]]. She became pregnant after being raped by [[Owain mab Urien]] according to the [[British Library]] manuscript. However, other historic accounts claim Owain and Teneu (also known as Thaney) had a love affair whilst he was still married to his wife Penarwen and that her father, King Lot, separated the pair after she became pregnant. Later, allegedly, after Penarwen died, Tenue/Thaney returned to King Owain and the pair were able to marry before King Owain met his death battling Bernicia in 597 AD.

Her furious father had her thrown from the heights of [[Traprain Law]]. Surviving, she was then abandoned in a [[coracle]] in which she drifted across the [[Firth of Forth]] to [[Culross]] in [[Fife]]. There Mungo was born.<ref name=hale>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jNWhGD2JAzMC|title=The Beloved St. Mungo, Founder of Glasgow|first=Reginald B.|last=Hale|date=1989|publisher=University of Ottawa Press|isbn=978-0-7766-0227-1}}</ref>

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 [[River Clyde|Clyde]], on the site of modern Glasgow. He built his church across the water from an extinct volcano, next to 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.<ref>[https://www.passionistsglasgow.com/st-mungo-patron-saint-of-glasgow.html "Saint Mungo", Saint Mungo's Church, Glasgow]</ref>

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 [[Kingdom of Gwynedd|Gwynedd]] where he founded a [[St Asaph Cathedral|cathedral]] at [[St Asaph|Llanelwy]] (St Asaph in English). While there, he undertook a pilgrimage to [[Rome]]. However, the new King of Strathclyde, [[Riderch I of Alt Clut|Riderch Hael]], invited Mungo to return to his kingdom.<ref name=hunter>{{Cite web|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08620a.htm|title=CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Saint Kentigern |last=Hunter-Blair |first=Oswald|website=www.newadvent.org}}</ref> He decided to go and appointed [[Saint Asaph|Saint Asaph/Asaff]] as [[Bishop of St Asaph|Bishop of Llanelwy]] in his place.

For some years, Mungo fixed his [[cathedra|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. It was nearby, in [[Kilmacolm]], that he was visited by [[Columba|Saint Columba]], who was at that time labouring in Strathtay. The two saints embraced, held long converse, and exchanged their pastoral staves.<ref name=hunter/> 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.