The Saints: St. Kentigern

c. 518-603 / Feast - Jan. 13

This bishop, possibly a native of Lothian, in Scotland, reportedly founded the Church at Glasgow. In one of many legends about this Celtic saint, his mother survived being pushed off a cliff above the Firth of Forth. Also known by the nickname Mungo, meaning “dear boy,” Kentigern was said to have been exiled briefly to Cumbria or Wales, where he founded a monastery before being recalled to the north. The ring and fish on Glasgow’s heraldic arms refer to the Kentigern legend in which he miraculously saved an unfaithful wife from the anger of her royal husband.