equipped The thieves came, brought with them crowbars and tool. They wrenched the heavy steel door off the hinges and gained entry to the crypt under the Church of St. Michan’s in the middle of Dublin. “I just can’t comprehend that someone would do something Insane,” said pastor David Pierpoint this week, visibly shaken in front of the press.
neither Gold nor Grave ornaments, but the head of the crusaders-mummy, 800 years old was Stolen. “The head is gone,” said Pier-point, and the rest of the Remains of the man were badly twisted damaged, the legs in the chest pushed up, the arms. Further, only about 300 years old mummy called “The nun” had been moved and the contents of a coffin in the cellar scattered, the police determined that the crypt is closed. “Our biggest concern is the severed head in some Form to get back, so we can let the crusaders rest in peace,” said the pastor. The mummy may be a famous exhibit, but first and foremost, the Remnant of a people.
The St. Michan’s Church is a much-visited place in Dublin, and it attracts not only lovers of the Morbid and infantile Ghost-Tour-tourists. It was founded in 1095, even if the main walls are younger. On your organ Georg Friedrich Händel is said to have his “Messiah” practiced before the premiere in April 1742. In the narrow, underground burial chambers, the remains of many well-known Dublin family. The death mask of the nationalist leader Wolfe Tone (1763-1798) is exhibited here, seriously and white.
churchgoers from the neighborhood
The most Spectacular are but the mummies: Because of the lime stone of the cellar walls of the air removes moisture and of the special soil will reduce the oxygen content in the rooms, apparently, in addition, some of the stored body mummified in a natural way.
On the crusaders is as good as nothing is known. He was for the 13. Century incredibly huge, 1.98 metres. His martial Nickname he probably owes his crossed placed in the coffin deliberately broken legs. Whether it was banal to get the long man in the coffin, is controversial. Armed to travel to Jerusalem, but nothing seems to be known. Also where the corpse before the construction of the present cellar in the 17th century. Century stored, is unknown. The Church is self-consciously that the man was a Church-goers from the neighborhood.
thieves to “your Conscience
” Sure. For many years he lay peacefully and undisturbed in an open coffin in addition to other mummies. As of 1996, once a Teenager, in the crypt of St. Michan’s invaded and football with the skull of a dead girl played, he was spared. Now the crusaders have been beheaded brutally. “I must say, I’m disgusted,” said pastor Pierpoint.
Dublin, Archbishop Michael Jackson has encouraged the thieves, “to examine their Consciences” and head back. Also because of this will decompose in the air fast. A market for such relics, there is hardly, writes the police.
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 28.02.2019, 21:38 PM
