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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

1190–1260 · Medieval · Order of Friars Minor

Thomas of Celano OFM (Italian: Tommaso da Celano; c. 1185 – c. 1265) was an Italian friar of the Franciscans (Order of Friars Minor) as well as a poet and the author of three hagiographies about Francis of Assisi.

1260–1321 · Medieval · Franciscans

Thomas of Tolentino, OFM (Italian: Tommaso di or da Tolentino; c. 1255 – 8 April 1321) was an Italian Franciscan missionary who was martyred with his three companions in Thane, India, for blaspheming Muhammad.

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.

1380–1471 · Medieval · Canons Regular of Saint Augustine

Thomas à Kempis CRV (c. 1380 – 1 May 1471; German: Thomas von Kempen; Dutch: Thomas van Kempen) was a German-Dutch Catholic canon regular of the Augustinians and the author of The Imitation of Christ, one of the best known Christian devotional books.

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.

1743–1794 · Modern · Order of Discalced Nuns of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel

Thérèse de Saint Ignace was a French Catholic nun of the Order of Discalced Nuns of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel. Born in Compiègne in 1743, she died by decapitation in Paris in 1794. She is recognized as a blessed of the Catholic Church.

1742–1794 · Modern · Order of Discalced Nuns of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel

Thérèse du Cœur de Marie was a French Catholic nun of the Order of Discalced Nuns of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel. Born in Reims in 1742, she died by decapitation in Paris in 1794. She is recognized as a blessed of the Catholic Church.

1904–1955 · Contemporary

Tit Liviu Chinezu (22 June 1904 – 15 January 1955) was a Romanian bishop of the Greek-Catholic Church. Born to a priest in Huduc village, Mureș County, he went to Rome in 1925, studying first at Sant'Atanasio college and becoming a Doctor of Sacred Theology at the Pontificium In…

1915–1969 · Contemporary · Salesians of Don Bosco

Titus Zeman (4 January 1915 – 8 January 1969) was a Slovak Roman Catholic priest and a professed member of the Salesians of Don Bosco. Zeman studied in Italian cities prior to his ordination and worked in Slovakia to protect fellow Salesians after the communist regime outlawed re…

1866–1936 · Contemporary · Society of Jesus

Tomás Sitjar Fortiá (born March 21, 1866, in Girona; died August 19, 1936, in Gandia) was a Catholic priest, Jesuit, and martyr of the Spanish Civil War, who was a victim of anti-Catholic persecution and is honored as a blessed of the Catholic Church.

1752–1794 · Modern · Dominican Order

Tomasz Rehm was a Dominican priest born in 1752 in Katzenthal. He died in 1794 at the Martyrs of Rochefort and is recognized as a blessed in the Catholic Church.

1818–1901 · Contemporary

Tommaso Reggio (9 January 1818 - 22 November 1901) was an Italian Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Archbishop of Genoa from 1892 until his death. He was also the founder of the Sisters of Saint Martha.

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…

1914–1936 · Contemporary · Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Tomás Capdevila Miró, C.M.F. (Maldà, May 5, 1914 – Barbastro, August 13, 1936), was a Spanish religious who was martyred in Barbastro during the Spanish Civil War and is venerated as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1915–1936 · Contemporary · Passionists

Tomás Cuartero Gascón, who took the religious name Tomás of the Blessed Sacrament, C.P. (Tabuenca, February 22, 1915 – Manzanares, October 23, 1936), was a brother of the Passionist Congregation murdered by anticlerical forces during the Spanish Civil War.

1929–1981 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor

Marcello "Tullio" Rappo Maruzzo OFM (23 July 1929 – 1 July 1981) was an Italian Catholic priest and missionary dedicated to catechesis and evangelization among the local people in Guatemala. Maruzzo was a member of the Order of Friars Minor.

1200–1260 · Medieval · Order of St. Augustine

Ugolino da Gualdo Cattaneo (1200 - 1 January 1260) was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious and friar of the Order of Saint Augustine. Ugolino is best known for founding an Augustinian convent in Gualdo Cattaneo in 1258 where he served as its prior until his death.

1882–1913 · Contemporary · Sisters of Mercy of the Holy Cross

Ulrika Nisch, SCSC, sometimes called Ulrika of Hegne (born Franziska Nisch, 18 September 1882 – 8 May 1913) was a German religious sister of the Sisters of Mercy of the Holy Cross of Ingenbohl. She performed a wide range of tasks to cater to the needs of those who needed help.

1136–1189 · Medieval

Humbert III (1136 – 4 March 1189), surnamed the Blessed, was Count of Savoy from 1148 to 1189. His parents were Amadeus III of Savoy and Mahaut of Albon. He ceded rights and benefits to monasteries and played a decisive role in the organisation of Hautecombe Abbey.

1035–1099 · Medieval · Benedictines

Pope Urban II (Latin: Urbanus II; c. 1035 – 29 July 1099), otherwise known as Odo of Châtillon or Otho de Lagery, was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 12 March 1088 to his death.

1310–1370 · Medieval · Benedictines

Pope Urban V (Latin: Urbanus V; born Guillaume de Grimoard, 1310 – 19 December 1370) was head of the Catholic Church from 28 September 1362 until his death on 19 December 1370. He was a member of the Order of Saint Benedict and the only Avignon pope to be beatified.

1901–1936 · Contemporary

Urbano Gil Sáez was a Spanish member of the Catholic Church born in 1901. He died in 1936 and has been recognized as a blessed.

1375–1410 · Medieval

Ursulina Veneri of Parma (Parma, 1375 – Verona, April 7, 1410) was a Benedictine oblate declared blessed. Ursulina, the daughter of Pietro Veneri and Bertolina, recovered from a serious illness at the age of eleven through the intercession of Saint Peter of Verona.

1871–1937 · Contemporary

Valentín Palencia (July 26, 1871 – January 15, 1937) was a Spanish Catholic priest and educator of children and youth. A recipient of the Cross of Charity, he was murdered in odium fidei during the religious persecution of the Spanish Civil War.

1875–1952 · Contemporary

Valeriu Traian Frențiu (25 April 1875 – 11 July 1952) was the bishop of the Eparchy of Oradea Mare of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church between 1922 and 1952. He was beatified by Pope Francis in 2019. Frențiu is venerated on the 11th of July.

1899–1950 · Contemporary

Vasile Aftenie (14 June 1899 – 10 May 1950) was a Romanian Auxiliary bishop of the Greek-Catholic Church, titular Bishop of Ulpiana, martyr of the faith and Servant of God of the Catholic Church.

1907–1936 · Contemporary · Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary

Wenceslaus Clarís Vilaregut, C.M.F. (Olost, January 3, 1907 – Barbastro, August 12, 1936), was a Spanish religious who was martyred in Barbastro during the Spanish Civil War and is venerated as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1888–1936 · Contemporary

Vicente Ballester Far was a Spanish Catholic priest born in Benidoleig in 1888. He died in 1936 and is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1882–1936 · Contemporary

Vicente Blanco Guadilla was born in 1882 in Frómista, Spain. A member of the Catholic Church, he died in 1936 and is recognized as a blessed.

1896–1936 · Contemporary · Benedictines

Vicente Burrel Enjuanes was a Spanish Catholic priest and Benedictine born in 1896 in Juseu. He died in 1936 in Barbastro from a gunshot wound. He is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1908–1936 · Contemporary

Vicente Cabanes Badenas was a Spanish monk born in Torrent in 1908. A member of the Catholic Church, he died in 1936 and has been recognized as a blessed.

1885–1936 · Contemporary

Vicente Gay Zarzo was born in Torrent, Spain, in 1885 and died in 1936. A member of the Catholic Church, he is recognized as a blessed.

1891–1936 · Contemporary

Vicente María Izquierdo Alcón (born May 24, 1891, in Mosqueruela; died August 18, 1936, in Rafelbuñol) was a Spanish blessed of the Catholic Church. He was born into a very religious family and entered the seminary in Valencia.

1868–1936 · Contemporary

Vicente Pelufo Corts (born February 26, 1868; died September 11, 1936) was a Spanish blessed of the Catholic Church. He studied at the seminary in Orihuela and was ordained a priest in 1894. He served as pastor of the parish of Saint Vincent in San Vicente del Raspeig.

1872–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Augustinian Recollects

Vicente Pinilla was a Spanish Catholic priest, friar of the Order of Augustinian Recollects, and confessor. Born in Calatayud in 1871, he died in Motril in 1936. He is recognized as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

1874–1936 · Contemporary

Vicente Rubiols Castelló (born March 13, 1874, in Gandia; died August 4, 1936) was a Spanish blessed of the Catholic Church. He studied at the seminary in Valencia and was ordained a priest in 1894. For nearly 40 years, he served as the parish priest in La Pobla Llarga.

1881–1936 · Contemporary · Society of Jesus

Vicente Sales Genovés (born October 15, 1881, in Valencia, died September 29, 1936) was a Spanish Jesuit religious brother, a martyr of the Spanish Civil War, and a victim of anti-Catholic persecution, beatified by the Catholic Church.

1859–1936 · Contemporary

Vicente Sicluna Hernández (born September 30, 1859, in Navarrés; died September 22, 1936, in Bolbaite) was a Spanish blessed of the Catholic Church. He studied theology at the seminary in Valencia. He was ordained a priest in 1884 and became the parish priest in Navarrés.

1867–1936 · Contemporary · Order of Augustinian Recollects

Vicente Soler was a Spanish Catholic priest, friar, and missionary who served as the Prior General of the Order of Augustinian Recollects. Born in Malon in 1867, he died in Motril in 1936. He is recognized as a blessed within the Catholic Church.

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.