When holy obedience saved a priest’s life on the Titanic...

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It happened, incredibly, when he followed his superior’s order to get off the Titanic.

The story of Jesuit Fr. Frank Browne:

When Derry priest Fr. Eddie O’Donnell stumbled across over 40,000 negatives belonging to the late Fr. Frank Browne he would not have been able to envisage the significance of what he had just discovered.


Fr. Browne, a Jesuit priest, was widely recognised as a skilled photographer. He boarded the Titanic in Southampton and several days later he was ordered off the boat in Cobh, Co. Cork by his superior.

Fr. O’Donnell was born in Dublin but was reared for the first few years of his life in 106 Bogside (close to where the Little Diamond is now) after the death of his mother. He spent summers visiting aunts, uncles and cousins in Derry before joining the Jesuits.

Fr O’Donnell discovered the invaluable collection of photographs and mementoes in a Dublin basement in 1985. His book ‘Father Browne’s Titanic Album’ has been updated and re-released to mark the 100th anniversary of the boat sinking in 1912…

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This is really cool.
I love the story of the Titanic. I've been interested in it since I was a little girl. I can't believe that it's been 100 years since it sank. And call me silly... but I am still afraid to cross the Atlantic on a cruise ship because of what happened ;) And thinking of crossing the Atlantic on a plane isn't any better!
 
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