The stunning mural of St Thenue (also known as St Enoch) adorns a tenement's gable end in the east of the city and has a fascinating backstory.
Glasgow is fortunate enough to boast dozens of incredible murals in the city centre and further afield. From artwork honouring national heroes like Billy Connolly and Charles Rennie Mackintosh, to colourful scenes of the four seasons or our Patron Saint, St Mungo .
The portrait of St Mungo's mother has links to the east end community where it is homed, as her shawl features motifs in honour of the 29 women and girls who were killed in the Templeton Carpet Factory disaster in 1889, when a wall blew down in a gale at the famous building on the nearby Glasgow Green.
Instagram Floating on the Firth of Forth, the story goes that she was guided to the northern shore by a shoal of fish and reached land at the site that would become Cuileann Ros . She was given shelter by Saint Serf and the community in what would later be known as Culross. Top news stories today And she would go on to have a lasting impact on Scotland in another, very major, way, as Kentigern would go on to help create the city of Glasgow and become St Mungo, its Patron Saint.
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