• The Cause for Beatification for former student Fr Thomas Byles has been introduced by Brentwood Diocese.

• Fr Byles was a Beda student from Ongar in Essex. He was ordained in Rome on 15 June 1902.

• He was a passenger on the Titanic in 1912 and ministered to the people as the ship sank, refusing a place in a lifeboat so that he could continue to minister to the other passengers.

Click here for an article on Thomas Byles by Fergus Mulligan published in the Beda Review in 2012.