Saint Mungo a coracle in which she drifted across the River Forth to Culross in Fife. There Mungo was born. Mungo was brought up by Saint Serf who was ministering to the Picts in that area. It was Serf who gave him his popular pet-name. At the age of twenty-five, Mungo began his missionary labours on the Clyde, on the site of modern Glasgow. He built his church across the water from an extinct volcano, next to the Molendinar Burn, where the present medieval cathedral now stands. For some thirteen years, he laboured in the district, living a most austere life in
Saint Mungo Church. built in the 1836 originally as a Church of Scotland, it has recently been restored for its 180th anniversary. St. Mungo is referenced in the "Father Brown" series of books by G. K. Chesterton, as the titular saint of Father Brown's parish. St. Mungo's Hospital for Magical Maladies and Injuries is the primary hospital of Magical Britain in the "Harry Potter" series of books by J. K. Rowling. Kentigern Gardens is the location of a murder in "The Cuckoo's Calling", a novel published under J. K. Rowling's pseudonym of Robert Galbraith. Saint Mungo Kentigern (; ), known as Mungo,