t.
t. 7, p. 356, n. 126, and Chatelain. Notes on the Martyr, on Jan.
13, pp. 201, 222.
2. Phil. ii. 8.
3. T. 1, p. 889.
4. S. Hilar. in Ps. i. p. 20.
5. 1 Cor. x. 31.

ST. KENTIGERN, BISHOP OF GLASCO, C.

IN ANCIENT BRITISH, KYNDEYRN; SURNAMED MUNGHO, OR MUNGHU.

THIS eminent saint of the ancient church of North Britain, was of royal
blood among the Picts, or original inhabitants of that country, and born
about the year 516. He was placed very young under the discipline of St.
Servanus, bishop and abbot of Culros, a monastery, situated upon the
frith which divides Lothian from Fife. By this holy prelate he was
trained up in the perfect spirit of Christian meekness and piety. For
his innocence and great virtues he was beloved by his master, and all
who were acquainted {138} with that religious family, above all his
fellow-disciples, for which reason he was called Munghu, or Mungho,
which in the language of that country signified "one dearly beloved;"
and this is the name which the Scots usually give him to this day. When
he was grown up, by the direction of St. Servanus, he retired to a place
called Glasghu, where he led a solitary life in great abstinence, till
the clergy and people earnestly demanded him for their bishop. He was
consecrated by an Irish bishop, invited over for that purpose, and fixed
his see at Glasghu, or Glasco, where he assembled a numerous company of
religious brethren, who formed their rule of life upon the model of the
primitive Christians at Jerusalem. The saint's diocese was of vast
extent, reaching from sea to sea, and being wild and uncultivated,
afforded continual exercise for his zeal and patience; he travelled
always on foot, sparing no pains to spread the light of the gospel among
the unbelievers, of whom he converted and baptized great numbers. The
Pelagian heresy having taken deep root among the Christians in those
parts, he so vigorously opposed that fatal, growing evil, as entirely to
banish that hydra out of the church of the Picts. Besides the recital of
the whole Psalter, he performed every day several other exercises of
devotion; lived in a constant union of his soul with God, and by
perpetual abstinence, rigorous fasts, and other extraordinary
austerities, he made his whole life an uninterrupted course of penance.
Every Lent he retired from the sight and conversation of men, into some
desert, to hold a close communication with God in solitude. As both in
his vir