03/01/2025

  

The 2025 St Mungo Festival
The St Mungo Festival aims to celebrate Glasgow's patron saint, its people and the city itself. Now in its second decade, the Festival hosts performances, lectures, concerts, and ecumenical events around the week of the Saint’s Feast Day in January. The Mediaeval Glasgow Trust promotes the St Mungo Festival together with its partners in Glasgow Churches Together and Glasgow Life.
The St Mungo Festival will be the first event in the official programme for Glasgow 850 and while Glasgow 850 will mark the creativity and culture of the City, the Festival programme will be unique in highlighting Glasgow’s origins and a period of our history that was little studied or appreciated before its reappraisal within the last two decades.
This year's Festival opens on Monday 6 January with Louise Welsh's talk 'Who owns the Clyde?'. The 9th sees Dr Craig Lamont discussing 'Glasgow and Cultural Memory': From the Cathedral to the Clyde, Glasgow's cityscape has gone through tremendous change, but how much of that change can we see? How much can be recovered? Friday 10th sees a celebration of Vespers of St Mungo at St Andrew's Cathedral on the Clyde and Saturday a 'Celebration of St Mungo in Words and Song' at the Mitchell Library. Beginning that afternoon is our lecture series at the Mitchell Library organised with the Alexander Thomson Society; Neil Baxter's talk 'Getting to 850: Glasgow in Four Chapters'. On Sunday there is the annual Ecumenical service at Glasgow Cathedral and on the Feast day of St Mungo itself we have our led walk alongside the Molendinar burn to the Cathedral. In the afternoon we have the 2025 edition of our ongoing exploration of the Signs and Symbols of Glasgow Cathedral. Wednesday evening sees the Strathclyde University Chamber Choir present a programme of music in honour of Sts Mungo, Columba and Brigid. On Saturday Dominic D'Angelo of the Alexander Thomson Society looks at the Church in Glasgow from the 12th century through to the Reformation. Concluding our January programme, Niall Murphy of the City Heritage Trust will discuss the evolution of the city's George Square throughout the centuries.
Recordings of previous years' events can be browsed on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/.
Catherine McMaster
Chair, Mediaeval Glasgow Trust
Opening Lecture: Who Owns the Clyde?
Louise Welsh
5.30 for 6.00pm | Monday 6 January
Eyre Hall, Glasgow Archdiocesan Offices, Clyde St
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Glasgow and Cultural Memory at 850
Dr Craig Lamont
5.30 for 6.00pm | Thursday 9 January
Eyre Hall, Glasgow Archdiocesan Offices, Clyde St
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Vespers of St Mungo
7.00pm | Friday 10 January
St Andrew's Metropolitan Cathedral
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Celebrating the Life of St Mungo in Words & Song
11.45am | Saturday 11 January
The Mitchell Library
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Getting to 850: Glasgow in Four Chapters
Neil Baxter
1.00pm | Saturday 11 January
The Mitchell Library
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Festival Ecumenical Service
4.00pm | Sunday 12 January`~
Glasgow Cathedral
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Following the Molendinar
10.00am| Monday 13 January
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Signs & Symbols of Glasgow Cathedral
2.00pm | Monday 13 January
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O Priest of matchless renown: Music for Mungo, Columba & Brigid
Strathclyde University Chamber Choir
7.00pm | Wednesday 15 January
St Andrew's Metropolitan Cathedral
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A Particularly Special Daughter: Glasgow from Cathedral to Kirk
Dominic D'Angelo
1.00pm | Saturday 18 January
Mitchell Library
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George Square: The Evolution of a Square across three centuries
Niall Murphy
1.00pm | Saturday 25 January
Mitchell Library
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The Youtube channel for the annual festival celebrating Glasgow's Patron Saint, Mungo.
