“Titanic” Carillon Memorial – Sat 14th April

St. Colmans Cathedral will host a fitting tribute to the RMS Titanic exactly 100 years from the day the ill-fated liner hit the iceberg. On April 14 at 11.40 pm Adrian Gebreurs, Cathedral Carillionneur will play the Carillion to mark the precise moment when Titanic struck the iceberg.

Many of the 123 passengers who embarked on the Titanic at Queenstown are believed to have attended Mass in the cathedral before boarding the ship. It is therefore a great mark of respect and remembrance of those who lost their lives in the tragedy that the memorial will be held in the same location.

The programme will feature Chopin’s Funeral March and the hymn ‘For Those in Peril on the Sea’.  The short recital will conclude with the hymn ‘Nearer my God to Thee’, which is believed to have been played in the final moments by the liner’s eight-man orchestra, all of whom perished.