Kentigern

A few years ago, one of the members of our church decided to launch 'Day-trippers' (aka 'Have Bus Pass Will Travel'), the idea being that a group of people would have a day out each month during the summer, using our concessionary bus passes, to visit a place of interest. This ran for three or four years then, when he left about three years ago, our days out became more sporadic.

Last year, someone else picked up the reins of this idea and these visits restarted. We had our first Day-trippers outing of 2018 on Wednesday with a visit to Glasgow Cathedral, the St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art (next door to the Cathedral) and Provand's Lordship (believed to be Glasgow's oldest house and situated across the road from the Museum).

Although these places are on our doorstep (well, just about!) we don't tend to visit them that often, so it was good to spend time wandering around and taking in much of what they had to offer.

Glasgow Cathedral is the resting place, it is believed, of St Kentigern (also known as St Mungo) and he is also the city's patron saint.
St Mungo's tomb is situated in the crypt of the Cathedral and there is a stained glass window (pictured) in the choir area depicting him and some of the stories from his life (more accurately, some of the myths that have been attributed to him).

I've attached an extra photo of the Cathedral and Necropolis, taken from the top floor of the St Mungo Museum.