111 Years Ago Today, This Historic Priest Went Down On The Titanic with Paul MacAree

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• The Titanic was built mostly by the Protestants in Scotland.
• They say it was build by an Irishman and sunk by a British man.
• Queenstown – 20 minutes from here.
• There were over 2,000 passengers on the Titanic.
• The biggest cruise ship built up to that point.
• It was called the UNSINKABLE ship.
• There were 9 ministers of faith.
• 4 of them were Priests the others were from Presbyterian and Baptist.
• Father Thomas Byles –
• He said Mass for the 3rd steerage passengers on the 14th of April, Sunday.
• And just after midnight the Titanic hit the iceberg.
• Twice Father Byles was offered to get in the lifeboats and both times he refused.
• He was going DOWN into steerage to get onto the deck.
• They have a Priest as the ship is going down saying Psalm 23 and praying the rosary…this was Father Byles.
• He was doing General Absolution – used in times of war.
• There were howls and screams of people when people hit the water.
• Father Byles was with them – when he hit the water it was like 1,000 knives hitting you all at once.
• They couldn’t go back in the lifeboats b/c the panic would sink the lifeboats as well.
• They waited 20 minutes and 2/3 of all the passengers died on the Titanic.
• Father Francis Browne – he survived the Titanic to go to the trenches.

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