Ireland Trip: Part 38: St. Mary's Cathedral's Hanging Corpse

This is part 38 of our Ireland Trip that will explain about the "hanging corpse" from the ceiling of St. Mary's Cathedral, Limerick.
   St Mary's, is a cathedral of the Church of Ireland in Limerick city, Ireland which is dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. It was founded in 1168 and is the oldest building in Limerick which is in daily use.

WHO WAS EDMOND SEXTON? -  While we were visiting King John's Castle we learned about Edmond Sexton, a man who was not very well liked in past Limerick history. In fact, after he died, people hated him so much that in 1554 he was secretly removed from his tomb by Alderman Christopher Creagh (Sexton's brother-in-law) and David White, the church organist.

Inside the Cathedral

   They cut off Edmond's right arm from the elbow and left that in the tomb and took the rest of the body. They hung his corpse by the heels from the ceiling above the chancel of St. Mary's Cathedral, It wasn't found until three years later (when they went to bury his wife)!
  Makes you wonder why no one smelled the rotting corpse. Eeeeww!!!
  You can find the full story in a journal article. The article appears in the journal Archivium Hibernicum, by Clodagh Tait

Vol. 56 (2002), pp. 51-64

Published by: Catholic Historical Society of Ireland

Article DOI: 10.2307/25484193

Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25484193

St. Mary's Cathedral

Inside the Cathedral

GHOSTLY FEELINGS IN THE CATHEDRAL - While were were in the Cathedral, I (Rob) kept getting really bad feelings in there - it felt like dark, angry feelings. While there, we made a short video explaining the story. 


NEXT: THE LITTLE CLAY MEN, KILLARNEY AND AN EEJIT   


 OUR VIDEO: https://youtu.be/d7DzT016QN4