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Here\u2019s a good story <\/a><\/strong>of a priest ministering to the end:<\/p>\n

[The story often untold] is that of\u00a0 Fr. Thomas Byles<\/a>, the Catholic priest who gave up two spots on a lifeboat in favour of offering spiritual aid to the other victims as they all went down with the \u201cunsinkable\u201d vessel.<\/p>\n
A 42-year-old English convert, Fr. Byles was on his way to New York to offer the wedding Mass for his brother William. Reports suggest that he was reciting his breviary on the upper deck when the Titanic struck the iceberg in the twilight hours of Sunday, April 14th, 1912.<\/p>\n
According to witnesses, as the ship went down the priest helped women and children get into the lifeboats, then heard confessions, gave absolution, and led passengers in reciting the Rosary.<\/p>\n
Agnes McCoy, one of the survivors, says that as the great ship sank, Fr. Byles \u201cstood on the deck with Catholics, Protestants and Jews kneeling around him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFather Byles was saying the rosary and praying for the repose of the souls of those about to perish,\u201d she told the\u00a0New York Telegram<\/em> on April 22, 1912,\u00a0according to<\/a> the website devoted to his memory,FatherByles.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n
In the\u00a0 words<\/a> of the priest\u2019s friend Fr. Patrick McKenna, \u201cHe twice refused the offer of a place in a boat, saying his duty was to stay on the ship while one soul wanted his ministrations.\u201d<\/p>\n
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