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===Namesake churches, schools and charities=== [[Image:stmungorc.JPG|thumb|145px|[[St Mungo's Church, Townhead]], [[Glasgow]]]] Saint Mungo founded a number of churches during his period as Archbishop of Strathclyde of which [[Stobo Kirk]] is a notable example. At [[Townhead]] and [[Dennistoun]] in [[Glasgow]] there is a modern [[Roman Catholic]] church and a traditional [[Scottish Episcopal Church]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://eastendepiscopal.org.uk/stkentigern.html|title=St Kentigern's Episcopal Church, Dennistoun, Glasgow|website=eastendepiscopal.org.uk}}</ref> respectively dedicated to the saint. [[St Mungo's Academy]] is a [[Roman Catholic]], [[co-educational]], [[Comprehensive school|comprehensive]], [[secondary school]] located in [[Bridgeton, Glasgow]]. Another church established by the saint himself was [[St Kentigern's Church, Lanark (Hyndford Road)|St Kentigern's Church]] of [[Lanark]], founded shortly before his death, and which now stands in ruins. Another church called [[St Kentigern's Church, Lanark (Hope Street)|St Kentigern's]] was built in the town in the late 19th century. It is still present but has been converted to housing and office space.<ref name="Clydesdale's Heritage">{{cite web|title=St Kentigern's Church, Lanark|url=http://www.clydesdalesheritage.org.uk/st-kentigerns-church-lanark/|website=Clydesdale's Heritage|publisher=Lanark and District Archaeological Society|access-date=10 January 2016|date=13 October 2011}}</ref><ref name="HES Lanark Church (Hope St)">{{cite web|title=HOPE STREET ST KENTIGERN'S CHURCH (CHURCH OF SCOTLAND)|url=http://portal.historic-scotland.gov.uk/designation/LB37007|website=Historic Scotland: Designations|publisher=Historic Environment Scotland|access-date=10 January 2016}}</ref> In [[Kilmarnock]], a [[Church of Scotland]] congregation is named St Kentigern's. [[St. Kentigern's Academy]] opened in [[Blackburn, West Lothian]] in September 1974. In [[Alloa]], a chapel dedicated to St. Mungo is thought to have been erected during the fourteenth or fifteenth-century. The present [[Church of Scotland]] [[St. Mungo's Parish Church]] in Alloa was built in 1817. In [[Cumbernauld]], there is St. Mungo's Parish Church in the centre of the New Town. In the [[Lake District]] village of [[Caldbeck]] there is a church and a well named after him. The Cumbrian parish churches at Crossthwaite in Keswick, Mungrisdale, Castle Sowerby, and Irthington are also dedicated to St Kentigern. There are two Cumbrian churches dedicated to St Mungo, one at Bromfield (also a well and castle) and one at [[St Mungo's Church, Dearham|Dearham]]. There is a St Kentigern's school and church in [[Blackpool]]. In Falkirk, there is a St. Mungo's High School. In [[Grinsdale]], Cumbria there is a church venerated to St. Kentigern. Also in Cumbria, there are two Greek Orthodox Communities venerated to St. Mungo/Kentigern, one in [[Dalton-in-Furness]] and the other in [[Keswick, Cumbria|Keswick]]. In [[Fallowfield]], a suburb of the city of Manchester, a Roman Catholic church is dedicated to Saint Kentigern. St Kentigern's is a small Roman Catholic Church in the village of [[Eyeries]], on the Beara peninsula in West Cork, Ireland.<ref>[http://www.eyeries.ie/activities-mass-times.php St Kentigern’s Catholic Church] on Eyeries website</ref> Mungo or Kentigern is the patron of a [[Presbyterian church]] school in [[Auckland]], [[New Zealand]], which has two campuses: [[Saint Kentigern College]], a secondary co-ed college in the suburb of [[Pakuranga]], and a joint Boys School, Girls School and Pre-School in the suburb of [[Remuera]]. There is a United Church of Canada charge in Cushing Quebec Canada, Saint Mungo's United Church. Built in the 1836 originally as a Church of Scotland, it has recently been restored for its 180th anniversary. Although secular, the English charity for the support and empowerment of the homeless, [[St Mungo's (charity)|St. Mungo's]], was named after the saint by its founder. The Glasgow-born Harry Stone named it in honour of the patron saint of his birth city when the charity was established in 1969.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gould |first1=Mark |title=Soup and sympathy: Mark Gould talks to Charles Fraser, chief executive of St Mungo's |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2009/jul/08/st-mungos-fraser-homelessness |access-date=28 January 2022 |work=The Guardian |date=7 July 2009 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Our history |url=https://www.mungos.org/about-us/our-history/ |website=St Mungo's |access-date=28 January 2022}}</ref> Saint Mungo's runs hostels, outreach, emergency shelters, and employment and training services. It provides an online and in-person "Recovery College" free to its students.<ref>{{cite web |title=Our services: Recovery College |url=https://www.mungos.org/our-services/recovery-college/ |website=St Mungo's |access-date=28 January 2022}}</ref> The ruinous St. Mungo's Chapel (also known as [[St. Serf]]'s Chapel) in Culross is traditionally said to have been built on the site of Mungo's birth place. Founded in 1503, it later fell into ruin and was silted up. The site was excavated in 1926. It is now a [[scheduled monument]].<ref name="CulrossCanmore">{{cite web |title=Culross, Low Causeway, St Mungo's Chapel |url=https://canmore.org.uk/site/48020/culross-low-causeway-st-mungos-chapel |website=[[Canmore (database)|Canmore]] |access-date=4 April 2024 }}</ref><ref name="CulrossHES">{{cite web |title=Culross,St Mungo's or St Serf's Chapel |url=https://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/SM832 |website=[[Historic Environment Scotland]] |access-date=4 April 2024 }}</ref>
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