PAINT-A-BOX STREET ART 4 JULY 2021

THE HAYES CROSS IN RAHENY

RAHENY CELTIC CROSS [THE HAYES CROSS]

In the Centre of Raheny village stands a tall Celtic stone cross with the inscription "Heal the sick, say unto them the Kingdom of God is come unto you. Marie Elizabeth Hayes, doctor and missionary." Marie Elizabeth Hayes was born in Raheny in 1874. She worked as a doctor and missionary in India but she died after a patient with the pneumonic plague bit her on the finger.

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