TRAGIC BENEDICTION.
DOOMED ON BURNING SHIP. SEA Or SHARKS. CAPETOWN, December 13. Brother Ignace and other survivors from the inter-island steamer Cigale, which blew up with a cargo of motor spirit, reached Mauritius to-day. Brother Ignace shared a 6ft rait with a sailor, and heard the invalided priest who gave up hie seat in a life-boat pronounce a. benediction "in articulo mortis," hie voice rising above the shrieks of those doomed on the burning ship. The women aboard were marvellously heroic, and knelt at prayer with rosaries in their hands. Brother Ignace became delirious from thirst and the sun beating on his bare head, and had to be forcibly held on the raft by hie companions. They were surrounded by sharks. A single tin of sardines was their only food for three days.
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 305, 24 December 1924, Page 5
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