St Enoch Mural

Question 1

Smug

Answer 1

● Smug painted this mural in 2018.

- It took one week

Question 2

St Enoch

Answer 2

It’s St Enoch, a patron saint of the city of Glasgow and mother of St Mungo (maybe you’ve heard of him?). She is considered to be the founder of Glasgow, along with her son. ● Saint Teneu (an alternative name for St Enoch) has been described as ‘Scotland’s first recorded rape victim, battered woman and unmarried mother’. Her son was conceived when the Welsh prince Owain mab Urien raped her. Owain was disguised as a woman, and after sexually assaulting the naïve princess, he confused her by saying: ‘Weep not, my sister, for I have not known thee as a man is used to know a virgin. Am I not a woman like thyself?’. ● Upon discovering her pregnancy, her furious father King Lleuddun sentenced her to death and she was hurled from Traprain Law. Miraculously she survived the fall. When discovered alive at the foot of the cliff, Teneu was set adrift in a coracle and travelled across the Firth of Forth to Culross, where she was given shelter within the community of Saint Serf. There she gave birth to and raised her son Kentigern, whom Serf nicknamed Mungo, ‘very dear one’.