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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.

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.

1337 · Medieval · Camaldolese

Thomas van Gubbio was a Camaldolese hermit born in Costacciaro. He died in 1337 and is recognized as a blessed.

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.

1746–1792 · Modern

Thomas-Nicolas Dubray (Beauvais, January 21, 1746 – Paris, September 1792) was a French clergyman. Dubray entered the Society of Saint-Sulpice as a novice in 1768 and was known as an amiable young man.

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.

850 · Medieval

Thecla of Roubaix was a virgin, wealthy benefactress, and ascetic from Roubaix in French Flanders. Her feast day is February 20. Jean Cousin in his History of Tournai and Arnould de Raisse (Raissius) in his Supplement to the Lives of the Belgian Saints give her the titles of piou…

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.

1879–1917 · Contemporary

Thomas Saleh (3 May 1879 – 28 February 1917), born Jirays H̱anā S̱āleẖ, religious name Thūmā from B'abdāt, was a Lebanese Maronite priest of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin.

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.

1202–1282 · Medieval

Torello da Poppi was born in 1202 in Poppi and served as a monk. He died in 1282 in his birthplace and is recognized as a blessed.

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.

900–930 · Medieval

Livonir Ruschel, known as Tuto (born 2 July 1979) is a Brazilian former professional footballer.

1861–1936 · Contemporary

Társila Córdoba Belda was born in 1861 in Collana and died in 1936 in Algemesí. A citizen of Spain, she is recognized as a blessed.

1260–1330 · Medieval · Franciscans

Blessed Ugo Panziera, or Panciera, also known as Ugo da Prato (circa 1260 – circa 1330), was an Italian theologian, Franciscan friar, missionary, and writer. He wrote epistles, laude of Jacoponic inspiration, and thirteen spiritual treatises of Bonaventurian inspiration.

1227–1270 · Medieval · Sylvestrines

Ugo degli Atti (Serra San Quirico, first half of the 13th century – Sassoferrato, July 26, 1270) was an Italian religious figure, a monk of the Sylvestrine Congregation of the Order of Saint Benedict. He is venerated as a blessed by the Catholic Church.

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.

1192–1262 · Medieval · Cistercians

Urraca Díaz de Haro, also known as Urraca of Cañas (c. 1192–1262), was the daughter of Diego López II de Haro the Good and his second wife, Toda Pérez de Azagra.

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.

700–722 · Medieval

Uta of Uttenweiler (died 722 in Uttenweiler) was a beatified woman. Little is known about the life of Blessed Uta. According to one legend, she was of noble birth, while another legend claims she was a servant.

1100–1108 · Medieval

Uto of Kyburg, also spelled Utto or Otto (born at Kyburg Castle; died September 24, 1108, in St. Blasien), was abbot of St. Blasien Abbey in the southern Black Forest from 1086 to 1108. He was a member of the noble House of Kyburg and is a blessed.

750–829 · Medieval · Benedictines

The Blessed Utto was the first abbot of the Bavarian Metten Abbey of the Benedictine Order. His feast is celebrated on October 3. Utto was presumably a monk at the abbey of Reichenau; his place of birth is unknown.

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.

1890–1966 · Contemporary

Barbara of Skvorchikha (born Barbara Vasilyevna Arkhangelskaya; November 20, 1890 – February 27, 1966, village of Skvorchikha, Ishimbaysky District, BASSR, RSFSR, USSR) was a blessed, holy fool, and recluse.

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.