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1478–1535 · Reformation · Third Order of Saint Francis

Sir Thomas More (7 February 1478 – 6 July 1535), venerated in the Catholic Church as Saint Thomas More, was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesman, theologian, and noted Renaissance humanist.

1590–1634 · Reformation · Dominican Order

Thomas Nishi was born in Hirado in 1590 to his father, Gaspar Nishi Genka. A Catholic priest and member of the Dominican Order, he died in 1634. He is recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church.

1501–1600 · Reformation

Thomas Palasor (c. 1570 - 9 August 1600) was an English Catholic priest. He was a martyr of the English Reformation and was beatified in 1987. Palasor was born at Ellerton-on-Swale, parish of Catterick, North Riding of Yorkshire.

1528–1572 · Reformation

Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland, 1st Baron Percy, KG (1528 – 22 August 1572) was an English nobleman, politician and Roman Catholic rebel leader, who led the Rising of the North against Elizabeth I in 1569.

1621–1679 · Reformation · Benedictines

Thomas Pickering (c. 1621 – 9 May 1679) was a Benedictine lay brother who served in England during the time of recusancy in the late seventeenth century. He was martyred as a result of the fraudulent claims of Titus Oates that he was part of a plot to murder King Charles II.

1557–1587 · Reformation

Thomas Pilchard (Pilcher) (born at Battle, Sussex, 1557; executed at Dorchester, 21 March 1587) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1987 as one of the Eighty-five martyrs of England and Wales, with whom he is commemorated on 4 May.

1520–1570 · Reformation

Thomas Plumtree was born in 1520 and served as a chaplain. He died in 1570 and is recognized as a blessed.

1559–1592 · Reformation

Thomas Pormort (about 1559, probably at Little Limber – executed 29 February 1592, at St. Paul's Churchyard) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He was beatified in 1987. He was probably related to the family of Pormort of Great Grimsby and Saltfleetby, Lincolnshire.

1562–1642 · Reformation

Thomas Reynolds (c. 1562 – 21 January 1642), born Thomas Green (possible alias during priestly ministry, Richard Reynolds), was an English Reformation Catholic priest and martyr. Reynolds place of birth is not clear, possibly Warwickshire, more likely Oxfordshire.

1552–1579 · Reformation

Thomas Sherwood (c. 1551–1578) was a Catholic layman and martyr. He was arrested on suspicion of treason, having visited a house where it seems that Mass was secretly celebrated.

1501–1600 · Reformation

Thomas Sprott (d. 11 July 1600), also spelled Thomas Spratt, was an English martyr, as was his colleague, Thomas Hunt, who is also known as Thomas Benstead.

1635–1680 · Reformation

Thomas Thwing (1635–1680) was an English Roman Catholic priest and martyr, executed for his supposed part in the Barnbow Plot, an offshoot of the fabricated Popish Plot invented by Titus Oates. His feast day is 23 October. His father was George Thwing, Esq.

1567–1602 · Reformation

Thomas Tichborne (1567 – 20 April 1602) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is regarded as a Catholic martyr. Born at Hartley Mauditt, Hampshire, in 1567, Thomas was a younger son of Nicholas Tichborne and Mary Myll.

1571–1627 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Thomas Tsugi, SJ (1571 – 1627) was a Japanese Catholic preacher and member of the Society of Jesus. He was killed during the anti-Catholic persecutions in Japan and was beatified by Pope Pius IX in 1867.

1616 · Reformation

Thomas Tunstall (Tunstal) (executed at Norwich, 13 July 1616) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929. Tunstall was born in Lancashire.

1501–1605 · Reformation

Thomas Welbourne (Welbourn) (born Hutton Buscel, North Riding of Yorkshire - executed at York, 1 August 1605) was an English Roman Catholic teacher. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929.

1618–1679 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Thomas Whitbread (alias Harcourt) (1618–30 June 1679) was an English Jesuit missionary and martyr, wrongly convicted of conspiracy to murder Charles II of England and hanged during the Popish Plot.

1614–1646 · Reformation

Thomas Whittaker (1614 at Burnley, Lancashire – executed 7 August 1646 at Lancaster) was an English Roman Catholic priest. A Catholic martyr, he was beatified in 1987. Son of Thomas Whitaker, schoolmaster, and Helen, his wife, he was educated first at his father's school.

1535–1573 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

Thomas Woodhouse was an English Catholic priest and martyr at Tyburn on 19 June 1573, being disembowelled alive. He was the first priest executed under Queen Elizabeth.

1597 · Reformation

Saint Thomas Xico was a canonized saint who died by crucifixion in 1597.

1488–1555 · Reformation · Order of St. Augustine

Thomas of Villanova, OSA (1488 – September 8, 1555), born Tomás García y Martínez, was a Spanish friar of the Order of Saint Augustine who was a noted preacher, ascetic and religious writer of his day.

1577–1622 · Reformation · Dominican Order

Thomas of Zumárraga and Lazcano (Spanish: Tomás de Zumárraga y Lazcano; 9 March 1577 – 12 September 1622) was a Spanish Dominican friar, Catholic priest, missionary, and martyr of Japan. He was beatified in May 1867 by Pope Pius IX. Thomas was born in Vitoria, in 1577.

1600–1601 · Reformation

Thurston Hunt (executed 31 March 1601 at Lancaster) was an English Catholic priest. He was tried and executed with Robert Middleton, also a priest. They were declared to be martyrs by the Catholic Church, and beatified in 1987, by Pope John Paul II.

1481–1571 · Reformation

The Venerable Théodoret of Kola was a Russian State monk and hegumen born in 1481 in Rostov Veliky. He died in 1571 at the Solovetsky Monastery.

1550–1568 · Reformation

Theodosius was a Russian Orthodox monk who lived in Russia during the 16th century. Born around 1530 in or near Vologda, he died in 1568. He founded a monastery in Totma.

1500–1503 · Reformation

Tikhon of Lukh, of Kostroma (Tikhon of Lukh; born Timofey; first half of the 15th century, Grand Duchy of Lithuania — June 16 (29), 1503, Tikhonova Pustyn, Russian State) was an Orthodox monk, ascetic, non-possessor, and founder of the Nikolo-Tikhonov Monastery (modern-day villag…

1563–1631 · Reformation · Order of Friars Minor Capuchin

Tommaso da Olera (1563 - 3 May 1631) - born Tommaso Acerbis was a Roman Catholic Italian friar of the Capuchins. Leading a life of humility and service, Acerbis, initially a shepherd with no formal education, joined the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin in Verona at the age of seven…

1587–1647 · Reformation · Trinitarian Order

Thomas de la Virgen (1587–1647) was a Spanish Discalced Trinitarian friar. Bedridden by illness for forty years, he saw the greatest religious and political figures of the Golden Age pass by his bedside to seek his counsel. Pope Pius VII declared him venerable in 1805.

1495–1583 · Reformation

Tryphon of Pechenga (Russian: Преподобный Трифон Печенгский, Кольский; Finnish: Pyhittäjä Trifon Petsamolainen (Kuolalainen); Skolt Sami: Pââʹss Treeffan; Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish: St./S:t Trifon av Petsamo; 1495–1583) was a Russian monk and ascetic in the Eastern Orthodox Ch…

1546–1612 · Reformation

Tryphon of Vyatka (Russian: Трифин Вятский, romanized: Trifin Vyatsky; c. 1546–1612) , also known as Trofim Dmitrievich Podvizaev, was a Russian abbot and saint. He is known for evangelizing to the Ostyaks, and founded a monastery in Vyatka.

1538–1606 · Reformation

Toribio Alfonso de Mogrovejo (16 November 1538 – 23 March 1606) was a Spanish Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Lima from 1579 until his death. He first studied in the Humanities and Law before being appointed as a university professor.

1588–1602 · Reformation

Basil of Mangazeya (c. 1588, Yaroslavl — c. 1602, Mangazeya) was a Siberian protomartyr and a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church. His feast days (according to the Julian calendar) are March 23, May 10, July 6, May 23 (Synaxis of Rostov and Yaroslavl Saints), and June 10 (Synaxi…

1562–1619 · Reformation · Dominican Order

Vicente Bernedo García-Huidobro (born 22 January 2002) is a Chilean professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Chilean club Universidad Católica.

1590–1632 · Reformation · Augustinians

Vicente de Santo António, born Vicente Simões de Carvalho (1590 in Albufeira, Portugal; died September 3, 1632, in Nagasaki, Japan), OESA, was a Portuguese missionary, martyr, and blessed of the Catholic Church.

1581–1660 · Reformation · Congregation of the Mission

Vincent de Paul, CM (24 April 1581 – 27 September 1660) was an Occitan French Catholic priest who dedicated himself to serving the poor. Saint Vincent de Paul was ordained subdeacon and deacon at Tarbes Cathedral in South West France.

1587–1651 · Reformation

Virginia Centurione Bracelli (Ligurian: Virginnia Çentrioña, 2 April 1587 – 15 December 1651) was an Italian noblewoman from Genoa. Her father was the Doge of Genoa, and she had a short marriage due to being widowed in 1607. She is venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church.

1580 · Reformation

Shah Wajihuddin Alvi Gujarati (Persian: شاه وجیه الدین علوی گجراتی), also known the epithet Haider Ali Saani (Persian: حیدر علی ثانی), was an Islamic scholar and Sufi in the Shattari order.

1564–1588 · Reformation · Premonstratensians

Wilhelm Eiselin was a German Catholic priest, canon, and member of the Premonstratensian order. Born in Mindelheim in 1564, he died in Rot an der Rot in 1588. He is recognized as a blessed within the Catholic Church.

1597 · Reformation

William Andleby (Anlaby) (executed at York, 4 July 1597) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is a Catholic martyr, beatified in 1929. William Andleby was born in Etton, Yorkshire, into a gentry family. At 25 he went to the Netherlands to take part in the Dutch war.

1610–1679 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

William Barrow (alias Waring, alias Harcourt) (1609 – 30 June 1679) was an English Jesuit, executed as a result of the fictitious so-called Popish Plot, that between 1678 and 1681 gripped the Kingdoms of England and Scotland in anti-Catholic hysteria.

1605 · Reformation

William Brown was born in Northamptonshire and was a citizen of England. He died in Ripon in 1605 and is recognized as a blessed.

1549–1584 · Reformation

William Carter (c. 1548 – 11 January 1584) was a Roman Catholic English printer and martyr. William Carter was born in London in 1548, the son of John Carter, a draper, and Agnes, his wife.

1593 · Reformation

William Davies (died 27 July 1593) was a recusant Welsh Roman Catholic missionary who worked as an underground schoolmaster in the Creuddyn Peninsula of North Wales.

1588 · Reformation

William Dean or Deane (died 28 August 1588) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He is one of the Catholic martyrs, beatified in 1929. Son of Thomas B. of Grassington West Riding of Yorkshire William Dean attended schools in Leeds and Clitheroe.

1507–1535 · Reformation · Carthusian Order

William Exmew, O.Cart (died 19 June 1535, Tyburn) was an English Catholic priest and Carthusian hermit. He was hanged, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn and is honoured as a martyr by the Catholic Church.

1555–1582 · Reformation

William Filby (born c. 1557/1560 - 30 May 1582) was an English Roman Catholic priest. He was beatified in 1886. Filby was born in Oxfordshire, England between 1557 and 1560. Educated at Lincoln College, Oxford, he was admitted to the seminary at Reims on 12 October 1579.

1558–1595 · Reformation

William Freeman (c. 1558 – 13 August 1595) was an English Roman Catholic priest during the Reformation. He was convicted of treason and hanged, drawn and quartered at Warwick. He is one of 136 Catholic martyrs who were beatified by Pius XI in 1929.

1548–1596 · Reformation

William Gibson (1548 – 29 November 1596) was a layman from Ripon in Yorkshire, England, a member of a noble Scottish family, who was executed at York for professing the Roman Catholic faith. He is honoured as a martyr by the Catholic Church.

1537 · Reformation · Carthusian Order

The Carthusian Martyrs of London were English monks belonging to the Carthusian Order, most of whom were members of the prestigious London Charterhouse, put to death by Henry VIII between May 4, 1535, and September 20, 1537, for refusing to sign the Act of Supremacy.

1566–1594 · Reformation · Society of Jesus

William Harrington (c. 1566 – 18 February 1594) was an English Jesuit priest. He is a Roman Catholic martyr, and was beatified in 1929. His father had entertained Edmund Campion at the ancestral home, Mount St. John, early in 1581.