St Michan's, Dublin: Vandals decapitate 800-year-old Crusader

[davidb]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47364081

I'd like to know why they are calling the body 'crusader'.

[Duncan Head]

I'd like to know why they are calling the body 'crusader'.

Traditional but probably apocryphal, by the look of it:

But the true star here is the coffin set apart from the others and belonging to an 800 year old mummy called "the crusader." Though it may be apocryphal, it is believed that he was a soldier who either died in the crusades, or returned and died shortly thereafter.

At the back, placed horizontally, is the six-foot-six body of a man who apparently fought in the Crusades. (Though how he managed to die during the Middle Ages and end up mummified in a Dublin crypt built in 1685 is a great mystery.)