In the middle of this room on the semi-rural outskirts of Los Angeles County, a trio of musicians dressed entirely in white perform a ballad with acoustic guitar, hand drums and lyrics about the glory of the wind.Īs the song crescendos, a thin woman stands and spins, her hands raised over her head and her skirt floating into a kaleidoscopic whirl. I look up to the ceiling and see nothing, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t anything there.
“I get it!” he yells into the rafters of the cavernous space. To my left, a middle-aged woman sobs into her hands, while a white-haired old man on my right laughs hysterically. I can’t see the person gagging on the other side of the candlelit room, but I hear them churning up something from deep inside themselves, and whatever that is is hitting the bottom of a plastic bucket with a hard splash. In 1631, another bell was made, this time for the Tron Church (the steeple is pictured on the right), on which was inscribed the words "Lord, let Glasgow Flourish by the preaching of the word." Whether Glasgow flourished with spiritual assistance or the hard work of its people (or both), there is no doubt that Glasgow, now the largest city in Scotland, (twice the size of the capital, Edinburgh ) has certainly prospered.For a distinctly reverent gathering, there’s a lot of vomiting. The bell was still ringing out in 1578, as there is an entry in the City Treasurer's accounts two shillings (10p) "for one tong to St Mungowis Bell." A new bell was purchased by the magistrates in 1641 and that bell is on display in the People's Palace museum near Glasgow Green. In 1450, John Stewart, the first Lord Provost of Glasgow, left an endowment so that a "St Mungo's Bell" could be made and tolled throughout the city so that the citizens would pray for his soul. It is located near Glasgow Cathedral - founded nearly 1500 years ago by St Mungo.
The illustration here is of an ornate lamppost, incorporating all the symbols of the coat of arms. When the Bishop of Glasgow was designing his own seal around 1271, he used the illustration of a salmon with a ring in its mouth and this has come down to us in today's coat of arms. When this was brought back (presumably catching salmon in the Clyde in those days was a lot easier then!) St Mungo cut open the fish and found the ring. The knight confessed to St Mungo who sent a monk to catch a fish in the river Clyde. The King then demanded to see the ring - threatening death to the Queen if she could not do so. Some versions of the story say that the King took the ring while the knight was asleep and threw it in the river. But the Queen gave it to a knight who promptly lost it. This is because a King of Strathclyde had given his wife a ring as a present. The coat of arms always shows the fish with a ring held in its mouth. St Mungo was blamed for the death but he is said to have taken the dead bird, prayed over it and it was restored to life. This commemorates a wild robin which was tamed by St Serf and which was accidentally killed. But St Mungo broke off some frozen branches from a hazel tree and, by praying over them, caused them to burst into flames. Some boys who were envious of his favoured position with St Serf put out the fire. The legend says that St Mungo was in charge of a holy fire in St Serf's Monastery and fell asleep. The tree in the coat of arms is a now sturdy oak tree, but it started out as a branch of a hazel tree.
Many people, including Glaswegians themselves, are only vaguely aware of the stories and legends associated with the coat of arms. St Mungo (who was named originally Kentigern) is said to have preached the sermon containing the words "Lord, let Glasgow Flourish by the preaching of the word." The thrusting Victorian city truncated its motto into the more secular "Let Glasgow Flourish" which is still in use today. In 1866, the Lord Lyon King at Arms gave approval for one which incorporated a number of symbols and emblems which had been used on official seals up until then - all of which were associated with St Mungo. Somewhat surprisingly, the City of Glasgow did not have a coat of arms until the middle of the 19th century. There was a salmon fishing hamlet at Glasgow (which probably gets its name from the Celtic glas and cu meaning "dear green place" ) when St Mungo established a monastery on the banks of the Molendinar Burn, a tributary of the Clyde, in the 6th century. In those days the Clyde was not a deep navigable river up to Glasgow, but was the last place where a bridge could be built to allow a crossing without a boat. Glasgow, like many cities, owes its existence to the river which flows through it and the fact that in historical times it was a convenient crossing point of that river.
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