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Learn about the heroic sacrifice of three priests on the Titanic. Discover how they chose to stay and offer blessings and prayers to those doomed to die.

During April, as the world commemorated the 100th anniversary of the Titanic disaster, the stories of three courageous priests resurfaced.

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Fr. Thomas Byles sacrificed his own life in order to remain behind with those doomed to die on the Titanic, offering them blessings, prayers and absolution.

Fr. Thomas Byles, a Catholic priest who heroically led dozens of Irish third-class passengers on the Titanic to safety in 1912, has been placed on the path to sainthood. 

The seldom-told story of the third-class Irish passengers on board the doomed RMS Titanic – some were survivors, others were heroes and victims

On The Anniversary Of The Titanic, Remember The Cruel Depths And Noble Heights Of Their Final Hours: Some men chose to stoically help their families into boats and then stand aside Posted on On the morning of April 15, 1912, the survivors of the Titanic were pulled from the icy North Atlantic by the Carpathia. The night before, at 11:40 p.m., shipboard time, the ship had struck an iceberg in a glancing-but-fatal blow, tearing into six of her 16 compartments — two more than the greatest ship ...

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Wikicommons The R.M.S. Titanic sank on April 15, 1912, ending its maiden voyage across the Atlantic; of the 2,224 people on the ship, 1,503 lost their lives in the icy waters. More than a century later, this story still captivates imaginations around the world, inspiring prolific fiction and nonfiction, movies and musicals. In the words of James Cameron, director of the 1997 film named after the ship, “her story is like a great novel that really happened.” The sinking of the Titanic was als...

Father Paul Daly at his Silver Jubilee Mass in 2015 Heywood priest Father Paul Daly has taken on a new role at Salford Cathedral after 16 years at Our Lady and St Joseph’s. For the last five years Fr Daly has been Episcopal Vicar for Formation, heading up a department of the Diocese of Salford on behalf of the Bishop, dealing with all aspects of Adult Formation across the 90+ parishes of the Salford Diocese. After leaving his Heywood role on Tuesday (26 January), Fr Daly will now be doing t...