The Shrine of St. Mungo

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 19, 7 May 1903, Page 27

The Shrine of St. Mungo

With a view to mark in a special manner the thirteenth centenary of St Mungo, who died in 608, the Catholic Teachers' Association in Glasgow and distnct resol\ed to visit the shrme of the founder of the city and the diocese. At the request of the president, Mr .1 . Bonner, F.E I.S . Coatbridge, the members were fortunate in securing the services of the well-known authority of the Cathedral, Mr MacCiogor Chalmers, I A., F S A (Scot.), who very kindly consented to explain the leading architectural and historical features of this old lelic of Catholicism m Scotland The lecturer had the crjpt lighted for the occasion, and it was, indeed, a strange a iic\el experience, to hear ' Faith of our Fathers ' sung i (iinci the crypL by a band of Catholic teachers in a buMdltisr where rarely, if at all, has a Catholic hymn oeen sung fo' i,he last three centuries.