Myth of St Mungo Made Glasgow a 12-Century Tourist Hot Spot Tourism: Pilgrim Pound Copies of Manuscript On Saint's Life Gifted to City

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TODAY, Glasgow spends millions on its Scotland with Style campaigns, but the city has the marketing genius of one 12th- century monk to thank for its first tourist boom.

A manuscript detailing the exploits of St Mungo, which helped make the city a must-see pilgrimage destination across mediaeval Europe, will be unveiled to the public this week to mark the patron saint's feast day.

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Myth of St Mungo Made Glasgow a 12-Century Tourist Hot Spot Tourism: Pilgrim Pound Copies of Manuscript On Saint's Life Gifted to City

The Life Of St Kentigern, written by the hagiographer Jocelin of Furness around 1185, popularised Kentigern, later known as Mungo, and his miraculous achievements in a small 6th-century settlement by the Clyde. It led to St Mungo's formal canonisa...

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