£700
R.M.S. TITANIC:
R.M.S. TITANIC: Extremely rare In Memoriam card for one of the heroes of the Titanic, Father Thomas Byles, printed over two sides by Burns and Oates, 12cms x 8cms.
NB Father Thomas Byles was a Second-Class passenger and on the night of April 14th 1912 was walking on the upper deck praying his breviary when the Titanic struck the iceberg. As the ship was sinking, he assisted many Third-Class passengers up to the boat deck to the lifeboats. He reportedly twice refused a place on a lifeboat. Toward the end he recited the Rosary and other prayers, heard confessions and gave absolution to more than a hundred passengers who remained trapped on the stern of the ship after all of the lifeboats had been launched. His body, if recovered, was never identified. His brothers installed a door in his memory at St Helen's Catholic Church in Chipping Ongar, Essex. Pope Pius X later described Byles as a "martyr for the Church".
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