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 # 6 St Mungo's Tomb, Glasgow Glasgow Cathedral. Crypt. St Mungo's Tomb A view from within a cathedral undercroft with a series of vaulted arches supported by compound piers, amongst which are four with decorated capitals standing at the corners of a section of raised floor. The cathedral stands on the foundations of two earlier churches. It dates from the 13th century and is dedicated to St Kentigern or Mungo, whose tomb is sited in Joceline's Crypt. After the Reformation and until the turn of the 19th century, the crypt (known as Joceline's Crypt) was used as the parish church by the congregation of the Outer High parish.
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 St Mungo (2) Story of the Robin.  The following is dedicated to my wee pal Zac THE other boys who were being brought up and educated along with St. Mungo by St. Serf are said to have been jealous of the love shown to him by their master, and to have done what they could to do him mischief. One story tells that a favourite tame robin of St. Serf was by accident killed by one or more of his youthful disciples, who laid the blame on Kentigern; whereon he took the bird in his hand, and having made over it the sign of the cross, its life was instantly restored, and it flew chirping or carolling to its master. This is the famous "bird that never flew" of the rhyme on the armorial insignia of the city of St. Mungo.  Story of the frozen branches.  IN the refectory, it is stated, there was a fire which had been sent down thither from heaven, and which st. Serf's disciples watched by turns in the night, one after another, that it might not be suffered to go out. On a certain night
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  St Mungo (1) The saint is said to have been born about A.D. 527, and to have been the son of Ewen ap Urien, a prince of Strathclyde, his mother being Thenaw, a daughter of Loth, King of Northumbria, which kingdom then extended along the eastern coast, from the Firth of Forth, or Scots Sea, as it was long named, to the Firth of Tyne. The mother of St. Thenaw is said to have been either an aunt or half-sister of the famous King Arthur. The saint was thus cousin or niece to King Arthur, and sister to the "gentle Oawaine," so renowned as one of the chief knights of the Round Table.  ST. THENAW, or Tennoch (latterly corrupted into Enoch), is said to have been a. believer in the Christian faith, but not baptised until after the birth of her famous son. Her earnest longing is said to have been to preserve her virginity, and to dedicate her life to the service of the Church, but her semi-Pagan father insisted on her marrying the Prince of Strathclyde. Much obscurity rests on the ea