Priest (Isla Cruces)

"You know this place?" "Stories. The Church came to the island, and brought salvation, and disease and death. They say the priest had to bury everybody, one after the other. It drove him mad, and he hung himself." "Better mad with the rest of the world than sane alone."

- James Norrington and Elizabeth Swann

This man was a clerik who was sent by the Church of England to Isla Cruces before the 1720s.

Biography
Not much is known about this man's early life. He was named priest by the Church of England due his religious devotion and Christianity. At some unspecified point, the Church of England decided to establish itself at Isla Cruces, a populated island located at the Caribbean which had a Spanish church.

However, this was a fatal mistake, because although the Church brought salvation, they also brought a disease to the island, resulting in a plague that wiped out the entire population of Isla Cruces. This man was selected to bury the inhabitants, one by one, but he ultiamtely went insane for what happened and hanged himself at the church. From that moment, stories and legends about Isla Cruces began to be told and the island was completely abandoned following the priest' death.

Around 1729, when Captain Jack Sparrow, blacksmith Will Turner and former British Royal Navy officer James Norrington entered into the abandoned Spanish church to fight for the possesion of the Dead Man's Chest which contained Davy Jones' heart inside it, they briefly saw the decomposed corpse of the priest hanged from the church's roof. The priest's body would remain hanged at the church for all eternity.

Behind the scenes

 * The Priest of Isla Cruces was played by a skeleton prop in Dead Man's Chest.
 * In the screenplay revision of Dead Man's Chest in January 2005, there was an scene in which was mentioned the backstory of Isla Cruces, revealing what happened to the priest and why he comitted suicide. While the scene was taken out from the finished version of the film, the stene was retained in the film's junior novelization.

Appearances

 * Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest