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Four Chaplains Day

Name: Four Chaplains Day
Start: 2025-02-03T00:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-02-03
Location: US Holidays

Four Chaplains Day is held on February 3. United States, also considered a Feast Day by the Episcopal Church. This event in the first decade of the month February is annual.

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The Four Chaplains, also referred to as the Immortal Chaplains or the Dorchester Chaplains, were four World War II chaplains who died rescuing civilian and military personnel as the American troop ship SS Dorchester sank on February 3, 1943, in what has been referred to as the second-worst sea disaster of World War II.

These four chaplains, according to Warish and other eyewitnesses, remained calm during the panic following the attack, first distributing life preservers and assisting others to abandon ship, then giving up their own life preservers and coming together in prayer as the ship disappeared beneath the surface.

Francis P. Duffy – Chaplain during World War I, the most highly decorated cleric in the history of the U.S. Army.

Reverend John Hurt of Virginia (who had served as Chaplain of the 6th Virginia Regiment during the American Revolution) was appointed to the position on March 4, 1791, and became the first officially recognized United States military chaplain.

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