The bizarre case of a 'forgotten' Greater Manchester graveyard and Pope Francis
A local historian is writing to the Pope to protest over an ‘abandoned’ Roman Catholic graveyard which he says has become a ‘drugs den’. The overgrown cemetery - known as Barton Upon Irwell Roman Catholic Graveyard - in the Peel Green area of Eccles has not been used for a burial since 1940.
However, a spokesperson for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Liverpool told the Local Democracy Reporting Service: “Eccles isn’t in our archdiocese patch, so I spoke to the Salford diocese, as I thought it might be one of theirs, but they confirmed that it isn’t. We have now checked the land and it is unregistered, so it definitely doesn’t belong to us.”
“I’ve exhausted every avenue I can to try to get something done, and the only person I can think of who might be able to step in is Pope Francis, so I am writing to him.”
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