* 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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