St Mungo Festival 7th – 14th January 2012
Celebrate the life of St Mungo Glasgow’s patron Saint
The life of St Kentigern – better known as St Mungo, patron saint of Glasgow, is being celebrated during the city’s third official St Mungo Festival, 7-14 January, 2012.The festival, which honoured the Fife-born monk’s work to establish and expand the city of Glasgow around the sixth century, is being celebrated in song, music and dance.
In celebration of St Mungo’s life this year the emphasis is on Hoddim, and its link to Glasgow through St Kentigern.
According to the Life of Kentigern by the monk Jocelin of Furness, it was at Hoddim that Rydderch ap Tudwal, ruler of Strathclyde met with Kentigern on his return from exile in Wales. Other accounts claim that St Kentigern came to the Dumfries and Galloway region from Glasgow and as bishop founded a church and monastery at Hoddim. Evidence suggests that Hoddim was the site of an important monastery, and that this monastery probably had contact with, a number of other early Christian churches in the British Isles and Ireland.
The site at Hoddim is believed to have continued as an ecclesiastical centre until at least the twelfth century, when Glasgow’s claim to the church at Hoddim, based on their link through St Kentigern, was confirmed.
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