http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow#Heraldry

the coat of arms rerads like a testament to failure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Glasgow_Coat_of_Arms.png

Here is the bird that never flew
Here is the tree that never grew
Here is the bell that never rang
Here is the fish that never swam

Mungo was meant to have brought a wee bird back from the dead, some old nonsense about usign a tree to make a fire not go out and somehow this was the tree not growing…creative accountancy if nothing else.
The bell I don’t understand at all, as it was meant to be from rome…but was mute.
And the fish who retrieved the ring of some queen accused of putting it about a bity.

Now the repeated stuff about how each never did what it was meant to has always struck me as guff, as in most instances they did, and the rest it didn’t seem to matter.

I like it all though as it says something about the deliberately contrary nature of a lot of Glaswegians.

my dear green place indeed.

The Coat of Arms of Glasgow is interesting because It has a saying by him on the bottom that has been edited to be secular. The original was “Lord, let Glasgow flourish by the preaching of the word,” but it’s been edited down to simply “Let Glasgow Flourish”.

When Harry Potter first introduced St Mungo’s, I got so many phone calls on the release date letting me know that “I” was in the new book. I’ve been thinking of getting a St Mungo’s (HP Version) tattoo.

Perhaps one day the Catholic church will get around to proclaiming a feast day in his honour.