The crypt provides the final resting place for around 2,000 men, women and children who fled Ireland during the great famine
One of Liverpool's oldest churches, which has stood proudly for nearly 200 years, has a secret. Beneath the impressive, Gothic-style chapel on Scotland Road is a crypt - where 660 individual tombs line its walls. The origins of the parish date back to 1804, when a small chapel was first established on Dryden Street. The population of Liverpool was beginning to swell, and, with an influx of Irish immigration, St Anthony's soon emerged as the principal Irish church in Liverpool.
The priests knelt beside the rags of the dying, to rub their oil into the eyelids, the ears, the mouths, the hands, and finally the foreheads of those ones who waited. And the lice, which spread the fever, crawled into the clothing of the priests and the doctors. In this way, the men who tended the souls and the bodies of the sick became carriers of death. Their housekeepers, too, became victims as they handled their coats.
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