(latterly corrupted into Enoch), is said to have been a
believer in the Christian faith, but not baptised until after the birth of
her famous son. Her earnest longing is said to have been to preserve her
virginity, and to dedicate her life to the service of the Church, but her
semi-Pagan father insisted on her marrying the Prince of Strathclyde.
Much obscurity rests on the early
part of her history; but she seems to have incurred her father’s dire
displeasure, and to have fled, or been driven, from his court. She
returned to it, and her enraged parent is stated to have ordered her to be
stoned to death. As the courtiers, or servants, did not wish to lift a
stone against the daughter of the king, they placed her in a two-wheeled
cart, and hurled it over a precipice, in order that she might be dashed to
death against the stones beneath; but the cart, so says the story,
descended with "a gently gliding motion to the ground," and she escaped
unhurt, to the great joy of many.
St. Enoch’s Church, Square, and
Burn, instead of being named after, and dedicated to the antediluvian
patriarch, as many suppose, were, without doubt, so named in honour of the
mother of St. Mungo.
It is also on record that the
original name of Trongate was "St. Thenaw’s Gate."
