KENTIGERN, ST.

KENTIGERN, ST.
   or ST. MUNGO
   the Apostle of Cumbria, born at Culross, the natural son of a princess named Thenew; entered the monastery there, where he had been trained from a boy, and founded a monastery near Glasgow and another in Wales; was distinguished for his missionary labours; was buried at Glasgow Cathedral (518-603).

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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