Scottish Catholic Observer

The Society of Friends of Glasgow Cathedral will hold a launch event this month to mark the publication of the inaugural Molendinar Lecture given by Archbishop Emeritus Mario Conti (above) in 2012.

The lectures are given each year during Glasgow’s St Mungo’s Festival. The Molendinar is the stream around which a Christian settlement was established in the sixth century and where St Mungo founded his first church.

Titled A Tale of Two Cathedrals, Archbishop Emeritus Mario Conti’s lecture explores the history of St Mungo’s Cathedral—the former Catholic Cathedral in Glasgow—and St Andrew’s Cathedral on Clyde Street.

“The cathedral we see today and in which the city glories, contains no remnant of the church or churches it replaced earlier in the restoration of the see,” the Archbishop said about St Mungo’s during his lecture. “It remains a place of worship for Christians, and developments over recent years have seen an increasing number of ecumenical services taking place within it, so that it is not simply an architectural ornament of the city and, as a building, a great reminder of our history, it is also, still, the mother church of Glasgow’s Christians, and the place where its citizens can gather together under the mantle of St Mungo and pray together for the unity of the Church and the well being of their city.”

The launch event to mark the publication will be held on Tuesday March 17 at Glasgow Archdiocese’s offices in Eyre Hall, Clyde Street, at 2.30pm.

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