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KENTIGERN, ST, or MUNGO (" dear frien...

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 740 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KENTIGERN, ST, or MUNGO (" dear friend," a name given to him, according to Jocelyn, by St Servanus)  , a Briton of See also:Strathclyde, called by the Goidels In Glaschu, " the See also:Grey See also:Hound," was, according to the legends preserved in the lives which remain, of royal descent . His See also:mother when with See also:child was thrown down from a See also:hill called Dunpelder (Traprain See also:Law, See also:Haddingtonshire), but survived the fall and escaped by See also:sea to See also:Culross on the farther See also:side of the See also:Firth of Forth, where See also:Kentigern was See also:born . It is possible that she may have been a See also:nun, as a See also:convent had been founded in earlier times on Traprain Law . The See also:life then describes the training of the boy by Servanus, but the date of the latter renders this impossible . Returning to Strathclyde Kentigern lived for some See also:time at See also:Glasgow, near a See also:cemetery ascribed to St See also:Ninian, and was eventually made See also:bishop of that region by the See also:king and See also:clergy . This See also:story is partially attested by Welsh documents, in which Kentigern appears as the bishop of Garthmwl, apparently the ruler of the region about Glasgow . Subsequently he was opposed by a See also:pagan king, called Morken, whose relatives after his See also:death succeeded in forcing the See also:saint to retire from Strathclyde . He thereupon took See also:refuge with St See also:David at Menevia (St David's), and eventually founded a monastery at Llanel.wy (St See also:Asaph's), for which purpose he received grants from Maelgwn, See also:prince of Gwynedd . After the See also:battle of Ardderyd in 573 in which King Rhydderch, See also:leader of the See also:Christian party in Strathclyde, was victorious, Kentigern was recalled . He fixed his see first at Hoddam in See also:Dumfriesshire, but afterwards returned to Glasgow . He is credited with missionary See also:work in See also:Galloway and See also:north of the Firth of Forth, but most of the dedications to him which survive are north of the Mounth in the upper valley of the See also:Dee . The See also:meeting of Kentigern and See also:Columba probably took. See also:place soon after 584, when the latter began to preach in the neighbourhood of the See also:Tay .

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