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1908–1942 · Contemporary · Conventual Franciscans

Stanisław Tymoteusz Trojanowski (born July 29, 1908, in Sadłowo, Żuromin County; died at Auschwitz on February 28, 1942) was a Conventual Franciscan friar, beatified by John Paul II as a victim of Nazism.

1899–1945 · Contemporary · Dominican Order

Maria Julia Rodzińska, OP (born Stanisława Maria Józefa Rodzińska; 16 March 1899 – 20 February 1945) was a Polish Dominican Sister and is venerated as a Blessed in the Roman Catholic Church. Julia Rodzińska was born on 16 March 1899 in Nawojowa.

1851–1920 · Contemporary

Stephen Khitrov was born in 1851 in Gulyaeva and served as a Christian minister within the Eastern Orthodox Church. He held citizenship in the Russian Empire and the Russian State before his death in 1920. He is recognized as a hieromartyr.

1991 · Contemporary

Svāmī Pranvananda Saraswati was an ascetic who died in 1991. He is recognized as a saint.

1873–1921 · Contemporary

Szymon is a Polish version of the masculine given name Simon.

1914–1942 · Contemporary

Tadeusz Dulny (born August 8, 1914, in Krzczonowice; died August 7, 1942, in the Dachau concentration camp) was a Polish seminarian, recognized as a martyr and venerated as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1869–1936 · Contemporary

Tamara, born Tamara Alexandrovna Mardzhanova (Mardzhanishvili), and known in the schema as Juvenalia (born April 1, 1869; died June 23, 1936, in Moscow), was a Georgian Orthodox nun who served within the structures of the Russian Orthodox Church.

1879–1937 · Contemporary

Nun Tatiana (secular name Tatyana Ivanovna Gribkova; 1879, Shchukino village, Moscow Uyezd, Moscow Governorate (now Moscow) — September 14, 1937, Butovo firing range) was a nun of the Russian Orthodox Church. She was canonized as a new martyr in 2000.

1903–1937 · Contemporary

Tatyana Nikolayevna Grimblit (December 1, 1903, Tomsk – September 23, 1937, Butovo firing range) was a Soviet nurse and medical assistant who organized aid for prisoners and exiles, including the clergy of the Russian Orthodox Church.

1879–1937 · Contemporary

Dr. Tatiana Vladimirovna Egorova (1930–2007) was a Russian botanist and author noted for working at the Saint Petersburg Botanical Garden and for editing the multi-volume Plants of Central Asia series. She described over 170 species, most in the genus Carex.

1858–1900 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Théodoric Balat (Chinese: 德奥理; pinyin: Dé Àolǐ; born October 28, 1858, in Saint-Martin-du-Taur, Tarn; died July 9, 1900, in Taiyuan, Shanxi province) was a French clergyman, Friar Minor, missionary, martyr, and saint of the Catholic Church.

1867–1918 · Contemporary

Teofan was an Eastern Orthodox priest and bishop born in 1867 in Akatnaya Maza, Russian Empire. He died in 1918 in Perm and is venerated as a hieromartyr.

1875–1900 · Contemporary

1864–1900 · Contemporary

Saint Teresa Zhang He (born 1864 in Yuan, Hebei, China; died July 16, 1900, in Zhangjiaji, Hebei) was a saint of the Catholic Church and a martyr. Teresa Zhang He was born into a Catholic family in a village in Hebei province. Her husband was from the same village.

1900–1920 · Contemporary · Order of Discalced Nuns of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel

Teresa of Jesus of Los Andes, OCD (Spanish: Teresa de Jesús de Los Andes; born Juana Enriqueta Josefina de Los Sagrados Corazones Fernández Solar; 13 July 1900 – 12 April 1920) was a Chilean nun of the Discalced Carmelites.

1872–1937 · Contemporary

Jude the Apostle (Ancient Greek: Ἰούδας Ἰακώβου translit. Ioúdas Iakóbou Syriac/Aramaic: ܝܗܘܕܐ translit. Yahwada) was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament.

1858–1900 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Théodoric Balat was a French priest, born on October 23, 1858, in Saint-Martin-du-Taur, Montans, in the Tarn department. He died a martyr on July 9, 1900, in Taiyuan, China, where he was an Observant Franciscan missionary.

1891–1973 · Contemporary

Thevarparambil Kunjachan (born Augustine Thevarparambil) was an Indian Syro-Malabar Catholic priest who dedicated himself to the spiritual and temporal welfare of marginalized Dalits. Augustine was born on 1 April 1891, at Ramapuram in Travancore (present-day Kerala, India).

1964–2015 · Contemporary

Saint Thomas Eleftherion was a United States citizen born in Orlando in 1964. A practitioner of Greek Orthodoxy, he died in New Albany in 2015 and is buried in Columbus.

1851–1900 · Contemporary · Franciscans

Thomas Shen Jihe was a Franciscan friar born in 1851 in Shanxi. He died in 1900 in Taiyuan and is recognized as a Catholic saint and blessed within the Catholic Church.

1908–1993 · Contemporary

Thoroughgood "Thurgood" Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American civil rights lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1967 until 1991. He was the Supreme Court's first African-American justice.

1855–1920 · Contemporary

Tikhon (Russian: Ти́хон, Ukrainian: Ти́хон, Ти́хін, Polish: Tychon) is a Slavic male given name of Greek origin, related to Western European Tycho. Religious figures:

1865–1925 · Contemporary

Tikhon of Moscow (Russian: Тихон Московский, 31 January [O.S. 19 January] 1865 – 7 April [O.S. 25 March] 1925), born Vasily Ivanovich Bellavin (Russian: Василий Иванович Беллавин), was a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC).

1880–1918 · Contemporary

Timofey Petropavlovsky was born in 1880 and died in 1918. He is recognized as a hieromartyr.

1881–1942 · Contemporary · Carmelites

Titus Brandsma OCarm was a Dutch Carmelite priest and a professor of philosophy. Brandsma was vehemently opposed to Nazi ideology and spoke out against it many times before World War II. He was imprisoned at the Dachau concentration camp, where he was murdered in 1942.

1860–1915 · Contemporary

Tlgadintsi or Tlkatintsi (Armenian: Թլկատինցի), Hovhannes Harutiunian (Armenian: Յովհաննես Յարութիւնեան, 1860, Tlkatin village, Kharpert, Ottoman Empire – 1915) was an Ottoman Armenian writer and teacher noted for his leading role in rural literature.

1900–1928 · Contemporary

Toribio Romo González, known as Saint Toribio Romo was a Mexican Catholic priest and martyr who was killed during the anti-clerical persecutions of the Cristero War.

1885–1919 · Contemporary

Trofim Kuznetsov (July 22, 1885, village of Kazakovka, Syzran Uyezd, Simbirsk Governorate — January 1919) was a priest and a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church, canonized as a hieromartyr in 2000 for universal church veneration.

1874–1933 · Contemporary

Vladimir Grigoryevich Khirasko (January 11, 1874 – 1933) was an archpriest of the Russian Orthodox Church and a teacher at several colleges and parochial schools.

1865–1939 · Contemporary · Congregation of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus

Julia Ledóchowska, USAHJ (17 April 1865 – 29 May 1939), in religion Maria Ursula of Jesus, was a Polish Catholic religious sister who founded the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus.

1914–1964 · Contemporary

Varnava the New Confessor (Serbian: Варнава Нови Исповедник; 31 January 1914 – 12 November 1964) was the titular bishop of Hvosno and a saint of the Serbian Orthodox Church. His feast is October 30 on the Julian calendar.

1871–1915 · Contemporary

Vartkes Serengülian (Armenian: Վարդգէս Սէրէնկիւլեան; also known as Hovhannes Armenian: Յովհաննէս or Gisak; 1871, in Erzurum – 1915, in Urfa), was an Ottoman Armenian political and social activist, and a member of Ottoman Parliament.

1880–1938 · Contemporary

Saint Varus (Greek: Οὔαρος; died c. 304) was an early Christian saint, soldier and martyr. According to his generally reliable and authentic Acts, he was a soldier stationed in Upper Egypt who had the task of guarding a group of 7 monks awaiting execution.

1907–1999 · Contemporary

Varvara (born Natalya Fyodorovna Tretyakova; October 25, 1907, Pozhegdin village [now the village of Pozhegdin, Ust-Kulomsky District, Komi Republic] – October 14, 1999, Saint Petersburg) was a schemanun of the Russian Orthodox Church and a spiritual daughter of Saint Seraphim of…

1858–1902 · Contemporary

Saint Vasil Dimitrov was a Bulgarian cleric born in 1858 in Chiliodentro. He died in 1902 in the same town.

1874–1937 · Contemporary

Vasily Mikhailovich Arkhangelsky (January 20, 1874, Tula Governorate — November 16, 1937, Butovo firing range) was a priest and a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church, canonized as a hieromartyr in 2000 for universal church veneration.

1885–1938 · Contemporary

Vasily Gorbachyov, also transcripted as Vasily Gorbachov and Vasili Gorbatchev, (Belarusian: Васіль Фёдаравіч Горбачёу, romanized: Vasil’ Fyodaravich Gorbachyou, Russian: Василий Фёдорович Горбачёв, romanized: Vasily Fyodorovich Gorbachev; born 9 February 1965 in Vitebsk) is a fo…

1887–1937 · Contemporary

Vasily Kondratyev was an Eastern Orthodox saint born in 1887 and died in 1937. He was a citizen of the Soviet Union.

1903–1973 · Contemporary · Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer

Vasyl Vsevolod Velychkovsky, CSsR (Ukrainian: Василь Володимирович Величковський; June 1, 1903 – June 30, 1973) was a Ukrainian religious priest of the Redemptorists and a prelate of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church.

1870–1928 · Contemporary

Veniamin was born in 1870 in Shenkursky Uyezd and died in 1928 in Voldozero. He was a figure within Eastern Orthodoxy who is recognized as a Reverend Martyr.

1878–1934 · Contemporary

Viktor Ostrovidov was born in 1875 in Zolotoye and served as an Eastern Orthodox monk, priest, and bishop. A citizen of the Soviet Union, he died of meningitis in 1934 in Neritsa. He is recognized as a prelate.

1889–1937 · Contemporary

Viktorin Dobronravov was born in 1889 in Chișinău and held citizenship in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union. An Eastern Orthodox figure, he died in 1937 in Borovichi. He is recognized as a hieromartyr.

1845–1917 · Contemporary

Vincenzo Grossi (9 March 1845 – 7 November 1917) was an Italian Roman Catholic priest and the founder of the Daughters of the Oratory. Pope Paul VI beatified Grossi on 1 November 1975 and a second miracle that Pope Francis approved in 2015 paved the path for his eventual canoniz…

1908–1991 · Contemporary

Vissarion of the Agathonos (Greek: Άγιος Βησσαρίων ο Αγαθωνίτης), secular name: Andreas Korkoliakos (Greek: Ανδρέας Κορκολιάκος; 1908–22 January 1991), was a Greek Orthodox monk and Saint of the Agathonos Monastery, close to Lamia, Central Greece.

1907–1946 · Contemporary

Vitaliy Bayrak (Ukrainian: Віталій Байрак), sometimes referred to as Volodomyr Bayrak (Ukrainian: Володоир Байрак; February 24, 1907 – April 21, 1946), was a Ukrainian Catholic priest and martyr.

1848–1918 · Contemporary

Vladimir (Russian: Владимир), baptismal name: Vasily Nikiforovich Bogoyavlensky (Russian: Василий Никифорович Богоявленский; 1 January 1848 – 7 February [O.S. January 25] 1918), was a bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church.

1892–1937 · Contemporary

Vladimir Ambartsumovich Ambartsumov (September 20 [October 2], 1892, Shemakha, Baku Governorate, Russian Empire — November 5, 1937, Moscow, USSR) was a priest and clergyman of the Russian Orthodox Church.

1870–1937 · Contemporary

Vladimir Nikolayevich Damaskin (1870–1937) was a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church and a hieromartyr. He was canonized as one of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church for universal veneration at the Jubilee Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church in Aug…

1876–1918 · Contemporary

Vladimir Fyodorovich Dmitrievsky (1876, Novgorod Governorate — 1918, Semirechye Oblast) was a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church, canonized in 2000 as a member of the Synaxis of New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church.

1885–1937 · Contemporary

Vladimir Konstantinovich Lyubich-Yarmolovich-Lozina-Lozinsky (May 26, 1885, Dukhovshchina, Smolensk Governorate — December 26, 1937, Novgorod) was a protopresbyter of the Russian Orthodox Church. He was canonized as a saint by the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000.