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The ''Vita Sancti Kentigerni'' ("Life of Saint Kentigern") is a hagiography of
Saint Kentigern Kentigern (; ), known as Mungo, was a missionary in the Brittonic Kingdom of Strathclyde in the late sixth century, and the founder and patron saint of the city of Glasgow. Name In Wales and England, this saint is known by his birth and baptis ...
(also known as St. Mungo) written ''circa'' 1200 by
Jocelyn of Furness Jocelin of Furness (fl. 1175–1214) was an English Cistercian hagiographer, known for his Lives of Saint Waltheof, Saint Patrick, Saint Kentigern and Saint Helena of Constantinople. He is probably responsible for the popular legendary associa ...
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Jocelyn, a monk of Furness: The Life of Kentigern
translation into English by Cynthia Whiddon Green
A scanned manuscript of original Latin text of the ''Life of Kentigern''
at the British Library website Christian hagiography {{Christianity-stub