Tour Scotland Travel Video St Mungo's Parish Church Penicuik Midlothian

Tour Scotland travel video of St Mungo's Parish Church on ancestry visit to Penicuik, Midlothian, Scotland. Kentigern, known as St Mungo, was an apostle of the Scottish Kingdom of Strathclyde in the late 6th century, and the founder and patron saint of the city of Glasgow. Kentigern was given the name Mungo by Saint Serf, who ran a monastery at Culross in Fife and took in both mother and son. St Serf then oversaw Mungo's upbringing. At the age of 25, Mungo began his missionary work on the banks of the River Clyde. Mungo worked on the banks of the River Clyde for 13 years until the anti-Christian King Morken of Strathclyde drove him out in about AD565. Mungo made his way through Cumbria to Wales, where he spent time with St David, possibly founded a cathedral at St Asaph, and even found time for a pilgrimage to Rome. But in the 570s King Rhydderch Hael of Strathclyde, having overthrown Morken, invited Mungo to become Archbishop of Strathclyde. Mungo initially based himself in northern Galloway. In August 584 Mungo is said to have converted the bard Merlin to Christianity near the site of a church he later founded: Stobo Kirk. Mungo later returned to the River Clyde, where his church became the focus of a large community that became known as Clas-gu or " dear family ". From these beginnings emerged the modern city of Glasgow. Penicuik is twinned with the town of L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue in France.

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