Mungo, the Man Who First Found the Dear Green Place

Daily MailJanuary 11, 2008

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HE was the son of a princess consigned to almost certain death when it was discovered she was carrying the child of a royal rapist.

Banished before he was born, his pregnant mother cast adrift in a coracle on the Firth of Forth, it was not an auspicious start for a man destined to create the city of Glasgow and shine like a beacon in the life of the early Christian Church.

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Mungo, the Man Who First Found the Dear Green Place

By some miracle, Kentigern and his mother Thanew survived, washed up on the Fife shore at Culross. The future saint, now better known as Mungo, was raised in a monastery by St Serf, another Christian pioneer in Scotland.

In the course of his long life, the 'dear one' would achieve renow...

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