On the spot where Mungo was buried now stands the
cathedral dedicated in his honour. His
shrine was a great centre of Christian pilgrimage until the
Scottish Reformation. His remains are said to still rest in the crypt. A spring called "St. Mungo's Well" fell eastwards from the apse. His festival was kept throughout Scotland on 13 January. The
Bollandists have printed a special mass for this feast, dating from the 13th century. His
feast day in the West is 13 January. His feast day in the
Eastern Orthodox Church is 14 January. Mungo's four religious miracles in Glasgow are represented in the city's
coat of arms. Glasgow's current
motto Let Glasgow flourish by the preaching of His word and the praising of His name and the more secular
Let Glasgow flourish, are both inspired by Mungo's original call
"Let Glasgow flourish by the preaching of the word". Glasgow Fire Brigade also named their
fireboat St. Mungo, which served the around the Clyde from 1959 to 1975.
LNER Peppercorn Class A1 steam locomotive 60145 was named
Saint Mungo, entering service with
British Railways in 1949. Mungo is
remembered in the
Church of England with a
commemoration on 13 January.
Namesake churches, schools and charities , 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 respectively dedicated to the saint.
St Mungo's Academy is a Roman Catholic,
co-educational,
comprehensive,
secondary school located in
Bridgeton, Glasgow. Another church established by the saint himself was
St Kentigern's Church of
Lanark, founded shortly before his death, and which now stands in ruins. Another church called 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. 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. The Cumbrian village of
Mungrisdale (literally 'valley of the loved pigs') is likely named after St Mungo, and has a church dedicated to him, though until 1600 it appears only to have been referred to as Grisedale. Also in Cumbria, the villages of
Caldbeck and
Bromfield both have churches and wells dedicated to Kentigern. Other Cumbrian churches dedicated to him include
Castle Sowerby,
Crosthwaite (near
Keswick),
Dearham and
Irthington. There is a St Kentigern's school and church in
Blackpool. The Catholic Church in
Melling, Merseyside is named St. Kentigen. 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. 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. 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, 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. 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. 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. ==Fiction==