Múmias em Dublin - Mummies in Dublin
Mas numa cripta de uma antiga igreja.
Trata-se da Igreja St Michan que foi fundada em 1095 e por vários séculos foi a única igreja localizada ao Norte do Rio Liffey.
You can see mummies in Dublin, and it is not in a museum!

But in a crypt underneath a church.
It is the St Michan church, founded in 1095 and by many centuries the only church located North of the River Liffey.



Atrás destas pesadas portas de ferro estão as criptas de 900 anos, onde é necessário descer uma escada irregular.
Soon comes the guide to take you to the crypts which were supposedly one Bram Stoker's inspirations to write his classic Dracula.

Behind these heavy doors are the 900 year old crypts, where you have to go down in a very irregular staircase.
Estes caixões mais enfeitados são dos condes de Leitrim.
These more decorated coffins are from the Earls of Leitrim.

O clima pesado e um pouco assustador é inevitável.

The heavy environment and a little scary is always there.



A outra não tem as mãos. Segundo historiadores teriam sido cortadas por serem de um ladrão.
A terceira múmia está colocada com os pés e pernas cruzados e a quarta é do corpo de uma mulher. É interessante destacar que é raríssimo que este processo de conservação ocorra naturalmente como aqui.
Several elements contributed to the good preservation, such as the ideal temperature and humidity, as well as the release of a gas that avoid the proliferation of bacteria. One of the mummies has amputated feet, probably because they didn't feet on the coffin. In the old days, coffins were available only in a standard size.

The other has no hands. According to historians, they could have been cut off for belonging to a thieve.
The third mummy is placed with feet and legs crossed, and the fourth is the body of a woman. It is interesting to note it is very rare that this process of preservation happens naturally like here.

Veja como eram colocados os caixões.
The mummies were discovered totally by chance. In the old days coffins were piled on the top of others to save space, as as time goes by, one of this piles collapsed and the mummies appeared.

Check how the coffins were placed.

Saindo da Cripta e uma sensação de alivio.
And don't you think this has all stopped on previous centuries. Some families still have the right to keep their dead there until current days.

Leaving the crypt and a great feeling of relief.

Então se estiver procurando um programa diferente neste Halloween, conhecer as múmias de St. Michan pode ser uma boa opção.
Around St Michan's church is the cemetery as in so many other churches around the country. We were there in a very rainy and windy day which left the environment much more spooky.

So if you are looking for a different program this Halloween, visiting St. Michan's mummies could be a good option.
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