Pio-Benedictine Code Promulgated

Date: May 27, 1915 • Location: Grain, United Kingdom

HMS Princess Irene promulgated the Pio-Benedictine Code, the first official comprehensive codification of Latin canon law.

HMS Princess Irene was a 5,394 GRT ocean liner which was built in 1914 by William Denny and Brothers Ltd, Dumbarton, Scotland for the Canadian Pacific Railway. She was requisitioned by the Royal Navy on completion and converted to an auxiliary minelayer. On 27 May 1915, she exploded and sank off Sheerness, Kent, while being loaded with mines prior to a deployment mission, with the loss of 352 lives.