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Vandals Steal Head Of 800-Year-Old Mummy In Ireland

"These are people who have been lying at rest for years and years and to have them desecrated in such a sacrilegious way is so distressing and disturbing," the Archbishop of Dublin told local media.
St Michan's Church in Dublin, where vandalized mummies have been discovered, has a series of crypts.

Vandals have broken into a historic church in Dublin and stolen the head of an 800-year-old mummy nicknamed "The Crusader."

The grim discovery was made by a guide at St. Michan's Church, as he was getting.

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