The Mediaeval Glasgow Trust, Glasgow Churches Together and Glasgow Life organise the yearly St Mungo Festival. It celebrates our patron saint and endeavours to increase awareness of the Glasgow’s history through free events and exhibitions which attempt to bring alive the story of the city’s founding to all its people. It is held around the Feast Day of St Mungo on the 13 January. The 2024 Festival is its fifteenth year.

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THE 2024 Molendinar Lecture

‘Baghdad by Kelvinside’ and the Craftsmen Glasgow Forgot

This year’s Molendinar Lecture will be delivered by award winning journalist, broadcaster and writer Fatima Manji on Friday 14 June at Glasgow City Chambers. More details and your free ticket here.

The 2024 St Mungo Festival

Opening Lecture: Mediaeval Burgh Life | Dr Gordon Wyllie

Monday 8 January

An Island That Yearns For Saints: Music in honour of Mungo, Ninian & Brigid | Strathclyde University Chamber Choir directed by Alan Tavener

Wednesday 10 January

Talk: From choir to congregation: music at Glasgow Cathedral to 1620 | Professor Elaine Moohan

Thursday 11 January

Vespers for the Feast of St Mungo

Friday 12 January

Following the Molendinar

Saturday 13 January

The Opening of the Vita Kentigerni

Saturday 13 January

Signs & Symbols of Civic Power in Glasgow Cathedral

13 January

Festival Ecumenical Service

Sunday 14 January

The St Mungo Festival is organised by

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