(June 15, 2015 at 12:16 am)Stimbo Wrote:(June 14, 2015 at 8:48 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: Alternatively, maybe they were holy enough to send on the voyage. Weren't they the priests who were hearing confessions as the ship went down? Probably saved a lot of souls that.
There were three priests aboard, btw.
Here's a good article: http://the-american-catholic.com/2012/04...e-titanic/
They still drowned with all the others who weren't priests.
Yes, they did.
But not before giving absolution to many who might have lost more than their lives if they had died without it.