St Michan's Church of Ireland

This guide to St Michan's Church of Ireland in Dublin begins with Henry and John Sheares, two lawyer brothers betrayed by an informer just before Dublin's 1798 rebellion and executed for treason, whose remains ended up resting in the crypt beneath the church. You'll hear how the limestone vaults naturally mummified bodies for centuries, including a nun said to be four hundred years old and a man nicknamed the Crusader, so tall for his era that his legs had to be broken to fit his coffin. It's told standing in the same dry, cool air that preserved them.