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517 · Medieval

Speus of Nursia (born in Norcia, Umbria, Italy, 5th century; died there c. 517) was an abbot of a monastery he founded near that city around 450. For 40 years he was blind, enduring that disability in an extraordinary manner.

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Saint Spérie of Cahors, also known as Espérie or Exupérie (8th century), is a Christian saint whose feast day is October 12. Born in 740, she died a martyr in 760. Her body was buried in a forest, where a chapel with a crypt was later built to protect her tomb.

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Srimad Paramahansa Atmadhar Swami was an Indian Hindu monk and spiritual teacher. He was a direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa and received the title of "Paramahansa" from him. He was also a very close associate and spiritual companion of Lokenath Brahmachari.

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Crida (7th century) was a saint and princess of Leinster. Her feast day is November 30. Saint Crida, or Crite, was either the daughter of Mark, King of Cornwall, or of an Irish king. She is considered to have been the mother of Saint Boethius.

1510–1590 · Reformation

Saint Timothy of Euripus (born Tasos Kalamiotis, 1510) is an Orthodox saint and Bishop of Euripus in Chalcis. His feast day is celebrated on August 16, and in 1993, a church dedicated to Saint Timothy was built in his honor on the island of Kea, which is also commemorated on July…

1896–1942 · Contemporary

Stanisław Mysakowski (born September 15, 1896, in Wojsławice, died October 30, 1942, in Dachau) was a Polish Catholic priest, social activist, pastor, and youth mentor, and a blessed of the Catholic Church.

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.

700–720 · Medieval

Saint Stapin (in Latin Stapinus), also known as Étienne or Estève, born in the 7th century in the hamlet of En Lanet near Dourgne and died around 720 in Dourgne, was a hermit who became Bishop of Carcassonne. Recognized as a saint, his feast day is August 6.

1099–1191 · Medieval · Benedictines

Stephen del Lupo (Carovilli, between 1099 and 1118 – Manoppello, July 19, 1191) was an Italian monk belonging to the Benedictine Order and the founder of a monastery of which he became abbot; he is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church.

1813–1839 · Modern · Third Order of Saint Dominic

Saint Stephen Nguyễn Văn Vinh (Vietnamese: Stêphanô Nguyễn Văn Vinh) (born c. 1813 in Bồ Trang, Vietnam – died December 19, 1839, in Cổ Mễ, Bắc Ninh province, Vietnam) was a Dominican tertiary, martyr, and saint of the Catholic Church.

1803–1846 · Modern

U Sur-im (Hangul: 우술임; Hanja: 禹述任), later Suzanne U Sur-im (우술임 수산나), was a Korean Christian laywoman and the wife of Sébastien Nam I-gwan. She was born around 1802 in Gwangju, Gyeonggi Province, Korea, and died in prison on September 20, 1846, in Seoul.

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Sven of Arboga (Swedish: Sven av Arboga) is a saint of the Catholic Church. No verifiable information about the figure of Sven of Arboga has been preserved. Contemporary knowledge of the saint's cult is based on accounts derived from late legends and tradition.

284 · Early Church

Saint Servulus (Latin: Servulus) is a Christian saint who lived for a time as a hermit in a cave at a location now named Socerb after him, on the Karst Edge. Servulus was born in Trieste to noble parents, Eulogius and Clementia.

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Sylvain of Rome, also known as Saint Silvanus of Rome or Saint Silvanus (Sanctus Sylvanus or Silvanus in Latin), is a Catholic and Orthodox saint. His feast days are May 5 and November 23 in the West, and January 25 in the East.

300–311 · Early Church

Silvanus of Gaza (Latin: Silvanus) was a priest and later a bishop of Gaza who died a martyr in 311, having been beheaded during the reign of Diocletian.

507 · Medieval

Severinus of Agaune (or Saint Severinus, Saint Servin, Saint Sevrin, Sanctus Severinus), who died on February 11, 507, in Château-Landon, France, was an abbot of Agaune at Saint-Maurice in Valais, Switzerland.

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.

500 · Medieval

Tangwystl was a 5th-century saint and one of the 24 daughters of Brychan Brycheiniog. She married Tydanwedd ap Amlawdd Wledig and lived in Bangor-is-y-coed. She was the mother of Marchell of Dyffryn Clwyd and several other saints.

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Tharsilla was one of the three aunts of Pope Gregory I, known as Gregory the Great. She lived in the 6th century. Together with her sister Aemiliana, she consecrated herself to God and lived in piety and mortification.

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Hilary, sometimes also spelled Ilaro, Ellero, Ellaro, or Elaro (died Aquileia, March 16, 284), and Tatian (died Aquileia, March 16, 284) were the second bishop of Aquileia and his deacon, respectively, who were martyred together during the reign of Emperor Numerian.

1897 · Modern

Tatiana (Fomicheva), born Tatyana Alekseyevna Fomicheva (January 8 [20], 1897, Moscow Governorate — date of death unknown), was a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church, canonized as a venerable martyr in 2000 for universal church veneration.

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.

264 · Early Church

Thecla of Lentini (Lentini, ... – Lentini, January 10, 264) was a Roman noblewoman considered the founder of the Christian cult in the city of Lentini.

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Tegfedd was a 6th-century saint. She was the daughter of Amwn Ddu ab Emyr Llydaw, sister to Tydecho, and one of the family that fled Brittany and settled on the coast of Gwynedd with the permission of Maelgwn Gwynedd's family.

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Teigiwg is referred to as a 6th-century saint. She was the daughter of Madryn and Ynyr Gwent. Teigiwg fell in love with a young carpenter who came from Aberffraw to Caerwent to work on a mansion there.

250 · Early Church

Evaristus is a saint of the Orthodox and Catholic Churches who was reportedly martyred with nine companions near Gortyn, Crete, in 250, during the reign of Emperor Decius (249–251).

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.

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Theodosius (died July 17, 6th century, in Auxerre) was Bishop of Auxerre in the first half of the 6th century. He is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church.

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.

1250–1258 · Medieval · Benedictines

Tesauro Beccaria, also known as Tesauro dei Beccheria and subsequently as Saint Tesauro (born in Pavia, Italy, and died in Florence on September 12, 1258), was a 13th-century Italian ecclesiastic and politician. He was a member of the Vallombrosan Order.

1726 · Modern

Thaddeus of Petrozavodsk (died 1726) was a Russian Orthodox saint and holy fool. According to his hagiography, he lived in the early 18th century and was of Olonets peasant origin, though other accounts suggest he arrived at the Olonets ironworks from the lower Volga.

1331–1378 · Medieval

Theodora (secular name Vassa or Vasilisa, presumably Anastasia Ivanovna; c. 1331, Tver – April 15, 1378, Nizhny Novgorod) was the abbess of the Conception Convent in Nizhny Novgorod and the daughter of a Tver boyar.

845 · Medieval

Theodore Krateros was a 9th-century Byzantine general who served under the reign of Theophilos. Apparently a eunuch, he distinguished himself by defeating an Arab prisoner in a duel.

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Saint Theodore of Zaragoza was the second bishop of Zaragoza, succeeding Saint Athanasius around the year 66. He was a disciple of Saint James who, according to tradition, brought his master's body from Palestine to Galicia in the company of Saint Athanasius; both are depicted on…

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.

800–900 · Medieval

Theodore of Edessa, or Theodore the Great Ascetic, is the supposed author of a corpus of Greek-language Christian religious literature, part of which appears in the Philokalia of the Neptic Fathers.

301–362 · Early Church

Zeno and his sons Concordius and Theodore were Christian martyrs who, according to tradition, suffered martyrdom together in Nicomedia around 362. They are venerated as saints, and their liturgical feast day is September 2.

200–220 · Early Church

Theodore of Perge (Pamphylia) was a 2nd-century saint from Perge in Pamphylia who lived during the reign of the Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius. The holy martyrs Theodore, his mother Philippia, Dioscorus, Socrates, and Dionysius suffered together.

1630–1696 · Reformation

Saint Theodosius, Bishop of Chernigov, born into the Polonitsky-Uglitsky family around 1630 and died in 1696, was an Orthodox archbishop of the Eparchy of Chernigov who was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1896.

775–845 · Medieval

Saints Theodore and Theophanes the Branded (Greek: Θεόδωρος καὶ Θεοφανής τῷ Γραπτώ; second half of the 8th century – Theodore d. c. 840, Theophanes d. c.

681 · Medieval

Theorigitha (Old English: Theorigitha; died c. 681/700), also known as Tortgith, Thordgith, or Thorctgyd, was a saint from Barking. Her feast days are January 25 and January 26. Theorigitha entered Barking Abbey during the time of Saint Æthelthryth (feast day June 23).

1797–1840 · Modern

Thérèse Kim (Korean: 김 데레사) was a Korean Christian laywoman, born around 1797 in Myeoncheon, Chungcheong Province, who died in prison on January 9, 1840.

1811–1846 · Modern

Thérèse Kim Im-i was a Korean Christian laywoman, born in 1811 in Seoul, Korea, who died by strangulation on September 20, 1846. Recognized as a martyr and beatified in 1925, she was canonized by Pope John Paul II on May 6, 1984, along with 102 other Korean martyrs.

1788–1839 · Modern

Saint Teresa Yi Mae-im (1788–July 20, 1839) was a Korean martyr and a saint of the Catholic Church. Teresa Yi Mae-im was the aunt of fellow Catholic martyrs Barbara Yi Chŏng-hŭi and Magdalena Yi Yŏng-hŭi.

1022 · Medieval

Thierry II of Orléans, also known as Thierry or Saint Thierry, was an 11th-century French churchman who succeeded Fulk I to the episcopal see of Orléans.

450–476 · Early Church

Thomaïs of Alexandria, or Saint Thomaïs (born in Alexandria, Egypt; died there in 476), was a Christian, a martyr for purity, and a saint in the Catholic and Orthodox Churches. The first mentions of Thomaïs appear in Byzantine synaxaria.

850–1000 · Medieval

Thomas Maleinos (9th–10th centuries) is a venerable saint of the Orthodox Church. His feast day is celebrated on July 7 according to the Julian calendar. Venerable Thomas Maleinos was born in the 9th century.

1811–1839 · Modern · Third Order of Saint Dominic

Saint Thomas Nguyễn Văn Đệ (born c. 1811 in Bồ Trang, Thái Bình province, Vietnam; died December 19, 1839, in Cổ Mễ, Bắc Ninh province, Vietnam) was a Dominican tertiary, martyr, and saint of the Catholic Church.