Mungo placed his body on a cart yoked to two wild bulls, commanding them to convey it to the place ordained by the Lord. Mungo finished his training around 550AD and visited the home of a dying holy man named Fergus, who died on the night that Mungo arrived. He trained as a priest at the monastery of St Serf at Culross where he was renamed Mungo, meaning 'dear friend'. There are many versions of the life of St Kentigern, but the following is generally accepted.īorn in the early 6 th Century at Culross in Fife, he was the illegitimate son of Urien, Prince of Cumbria and Thenew (later known as Enoch), daughter of the King of Lothian. The City Arms must not be reproduced without the permission of Glasgow City Council. "Let Glasgow Flourish", registered at the Lyon Court in 1866, is a curtailment of the text inscribed on the bell of the Tron Church cast in 1631 - "Lord let Glasgow flourish through the preaching of thy word and praising thy name. The scene is represented on the counter seal of Bishop Wyschard, made about 1271. This was done and St Mungo extracted the ring from its mouth. The Queen appealed to the Knight who, of course, could not help and then confessed to St Mungo who sent one of his monks to fish in the river, instructing him to bring back the first fish caught. On returning home, the King demanded the ring and threatened Languoreth with death if she could not produce it. The Queen gave the ring to a knight and the King, suspecting an intrigue, took it from him while he slept during a hunting party and threw it into the River Clyde. The fish with a ring in its mouth is a salmon and the ring was a present from Hydderch Hael, King of Cadzow, to his Queen Languoreth. A replacement was purchased by the magistrates in 1641 and this bell still exists in the People's Palace. The City Treasurers' accounts for 1578 show an entry of two shillings "for one tong to Sanct Mungowis Bell" but the ultimate fate of the bell in unknown. ![]() In 1450, John Stewart the first Provost of Glasgow left, as did many others, an endowment to have the bell tolled throughout the city to call the inhabitants to pray for his soul. At any rate, in the 15th Century St Mungo's Bell had become a notable institution in Glasgow. The bell may have been given to St Mungo by the Pope but there is no definite information as to how he obtained it. When he woke and found what had happened, Mungo broke off some frozen branches from a hazel tree and caused them to burst into flames by praying over them. He fell asleep and some of the other boys, being envious of him, put out the fire. As a boy in the monastery, Mungo was left in charge of the holy fire in the refectory. The tree is now an oak but it started in the legend as a hazel branch. He took the dead bird in his hands and prayed over it, whereupon it was restored to life and flew chirping to its master. It was accidentally killed by some of his disciples who blamed St Mungo. The bird commemorates the wild robin which St Serf, St Mungo's old master, tamed. There were several subsequent variations, the latest being in April 1996, when the present Lord Lyon granted a patent to the city following Local Government reorganisation. The first seal on which all the emblems are represented together is that of the Chapter of Glasgow used from 1488-1540, but it was not until 1647 that they appeared in something like their present combination on a seal. There were at least three official seals in use and a patent was granted by the Lord Lyon in 1866. The bell is attributed to a bell that was reputedly given to Mungo by the Pope.The City of Glasgow had no single official armorial bearings until the 19 th century. The King then demanded to see the ring from Langeoreth and she confessed this to Mungo who sent a monk to fish the river and found the lost ring. The 'fish that never swam' is about a ring which a King gave to his wife Langoureth who gave it to her lover a knight who wore it and when the King noticed this took it from him when he was sleeping and through it in the River Clyde. Mungo prayed over the robin and brought it back to life. The 'bird that never flew' is about a robin that had been tamed by St Serf and it had been accidently killed. When Mungo woke he broke off branches from a frozen hazel tree and by praying over them and lit the fire again, the hazel branches were transformed in to a fully grown tree. ![]() The arms include 'the tree that never grew' relating to St Mungo tending a fire in St Serf's monastery but he fell asleep and some lads who were envious of Mungo's favoured position with St Serf put out the fire while he slept. The Glasgow coat of arms relate to the life and legend of St Mungo.
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