St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art Glasgow Necropolis. St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art The St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art is a museum of religion in Glasgow, Scotland. It has been described as the only public museum in the world devoted solely to this subject, although other notable museums of this kind are the State Museum of the History of Religion in St. Petersburg and the Catharijneconvent in Utrecht. The museum, which opened in 1993, is located in Cathedral Square, on the lands of Glasgow Cathedral off High Street. It was constructed on the site of a medieval castle-complex, the former
Saint Mungo led to a connection being made between this battle, the rise of Riderch Hael and the return of Mungo to Strathclyde. The "Life of Saint Mungo" bears similarities with Chrétien de Troyes's French romance "Yvain, the Knight of the Lion". In Chrétien's story, Yvain, a version of Owain mab Urien, courts and marries Laudine, only to leave her for a period to go adventuring. This suggests that the works share a common source. On the spot where Mungo was buried now stands the cathedral dedicated in his honour. His shrine was a great centre of Christian pilgrimage until the Scottish