Saint Kentigern (aka Mungo) was one of the great missionaries to the Ancient Britons (including Picts), founder of the Cathedral and Patron Saint of the city of Glasgow; and has many churches named after him in Scotland and the North of England.
One of these is in the remote-isolated Northumbrian church of Simonburn, just north of Hadrian's wall; whose Parish covered the largest area of any in England; and was also/therefore one of the very richest "livings" (i.e. the priest got an enormous "salary") from Medieval right through to Victorian times.
As you can see from the above inscription; after St Mungo was driven from Glasgow, he went South to the Lake District, then East along Hadrian's Wall - doing missionary work as he went.
In Simonburn; Mungo baptised in a particular spring of water, upon which the current church was built.
And to this day, the spring wells up at the end of the aisle; creating a damp, stained-patch on the flagstones that has been regarded as Holy ground - as I point-out below:


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