Holding on his way, Kentigern, "on
the same night in which he departed from St. Serf, was lodged, at a place
supposed to be Carnwath, in the house of Fergus, an aged Christian, who,
Simeon-like, is said to have received a "revelation that in the presence
of the holy Kentigern he should pass away from the world. And when he was
dead the blessed Kentigern . . . laid his body on a waggon, to which he
yoked unbroken oxen, with no one to guide them: and so, following the
waggon, he arrived at a place which is called Glasgow, where he buried the
body, and where, serving God, he, by divine revelation, took up his
abode."
The body of Fergus was buried
beneath some ancient trees near a forsaken cemetery that had been
consecrated by St. Ninian. On that very spot it is said was afterwards
reared the transept of our noble Cathedral, and the aisle or crypt of
which was dedicated to Fergus.
