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The Titanic’s Catholic Priest Who Went Down Hearing Confessions
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The Titanic’s Catholic Priest Who Went Down Hearing Confessions

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Amidst all the tales of chivalry from the Titanic disaster there is one that’s not often told. It is that of Fr. Thomas Byles, the Catholic priest who gave up two spots on a lifeboat in favor of offering spiritual aid to the other victims as they all went down with the “unsinkable” vessel. A […]