The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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St. Mungo (550 - 612)

Alias St. Kentigern [Alias]

missionary in the Brittonic Kingdom of Strathclyde in the late sixth century, and the founder and patron saint of the city of Glasgow Dictionary of National Biography entry: https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/15426 Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Mungo References in Documents:
Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713)

183. An ancient Breviary, continent. collecta Dominicarum & feriarum totius Anni. This once belonged to the Church of New-Abbey (or St. Marys de dulci corde) in Galloway, founded by Dirnorgilla, the Mother of John Baliol King of Scots, and seems to be very particular in the Scotish Saints: The learned Bishop of Carlisle hath noted (Scot. Hist. Libr. p. 234.) that St. Kentingern, or St. Mungo's Day, is Jan. 14.

Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713) 183. An ancient Breviary, continent. collecta Dominicarum & feriarum totius Anni. This once belonged to the Church of New-Abbey (or St. Marys de dulci corde) in Galloway, founded by Dirnorgilla, the Mother of John Baliol King of Scots, and seems to be very particular in the Scotish Saints: The learned Bishop of Carlisle hath noted (Scot. Hist. Libr. p. 234.) that St. Kentingern, or St. Mungo's Day, is Jan. 14.