Man arrested over theft of 800-year-old mummy head from Dublin church
The man was arrested on Thursday and is being detained at Bridewell Garda station under Section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1984.
The break-in was noted when a guide was preparing to open St Michan’s for visitors. The guide discovered the head of ‘the Crusader’ had been severed from its mummified body and was missing. The head of a mummified nun, who died 300 years ago, had also been turned 180 degrees to face the wrong direction while a third mummy had been turned on its side.The vaults receive about 28,000 visitors a year. The Archdeacon of Dublin, the Ven David Pierpoint warned that the closure of the crypts would significantly affect the revenue used to maintain St Michan’s, which was founded in 1095.
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