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Call for Titanic Priest to be Made a Saint
A campaign is under way to have a Catholic priest who refused to escape from RMS Titanic made a saint. When the Titanic sank in 1912, Father Thomas Byles, of St Helen's Church, in Chipping Ongar in Essex, twice refused to join a lifeboat and instead remained with passengers to pray. The man leading the campaign is the current priest at St Helen's Church, Father Graham Smith...
(Photo: The Titanic)
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