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1914–1988 · Contemporary

Teofilo Bastida Camomot (3 March 1914 – 27 September 1988) was a Roman Catholic archbishop from the Philippines. Ordained a diocesan priest of the Archdiocese of Cebu on 14 December 1941, he was eventually appointed an auxiliary bishop on 23 March 1955 and receiving the titular s…

1676–1748 · Modern · Dominican Order

Teresa Chikaba, OP (Ewe: Chicaba or Chicava; c. 1676 – 6 December 1748) was an African princess captured by Spanish traders and brought to Spain, where she was enslaved. She later gained freedom and became a Dominican nun.

1867–1957 · Contemporary

Teresa Fardella de Blasi, born on May 24, 1867, in New York and died on August 26, 1957, was an Italian officer's wife. She dedicated herself to street children and adolescents, founding a charitable organization and the Poor Daughters of the Crowned Virgin.

1850–1907 · Contemporary

Thérèse Gallifa Palmarola (Sant Hipòlit de Voltregà, June 21, 1850 – Barcelona, March 17, 1907) was a Spanish religious sister, founder of the Handmaids of the Passion, and recognized as venerable by the Catholic Church.

1848–1917 · Contemporary · Carmelite Sisters of Saint Joseph

Thérèse Guasch y Toda, born on May 28, 1848, in Riudecanyes (Catalonia, Spain) and died on December 15, 1917, in Barcelona, was a Spanish religious sister known in religion as Thérèse of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

1885–1946 · Contemporary · Order of the Brothers Discalced of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel

Teresa Janina Kierocińska (religious name Maria Teresa of St. Joseph, 14 June 1885 – 12 July 1946) was a Discalced Carmelite nun born in Wieluń, who cofounded the Carmelite Sisters of the Infant Jesus and was honored with the title of the Righteous Among the Nations.

1894–1964 · Contemporary

Maria Teresa Merlo (20 February 1894 – 5 February 1964) – in religious life "Tecla" – was an Italian Roman Catholic professed religious and the co-founder of the Daughters of Saint Paul that she established alongside Blessed Giacomo Alberione.

1826–1898 · Modern · Carmelite Sisters of Saint Joseph

Thérèse Toda y Juncosa (Teresa Toda i Juncosa, in religion Thérèse of Saint Joseph), born August 19, 1826, in Riudecanyes (Catalonia, Spain) and died July 30, 1898, in Barcelona, was a wife and mother.

1875–1953 · Contemporary · Sisters Canons of the Cross

Teresa de la Cruz Candamo, born on August 19, 1875, in Lima, Peru, and died on August 24, 1953, in Lima, was a Peruvian religious sister and the founder of the Canonesses of the Cross in 1919.

1858–1902 · Contemporary

Teresa of St. Rose of Lima, CSST was an Indian Catholic religious sister and the founder of the Institute of the Carmelite Sisters of Saint Teresa in Kerala, India. Teresa of St.

1916–1945 · Contemporary

Teresio Olivelli (7 January 1916 – 12 January 1945) was an Italian Roman Catholic soldier during World War II and part of the Italian Resistance movement to Fascism and the Nazi regime.

648 · Medieval

Thalassios the Libyan or the African (in Latin, Thalassius) was a Christian monk of the 6th and 7th centuries and a Greek-language religious writer whose four Centuries (collections of one hundred aphorisms) appear in the Philokalia of the Neptic Fathers.

400–440 · Early Church

Saints Thalassius and Limneus (5th century) were Syrian hermits. Their feast day is 22 February. The monks of St Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate wrote in their Book of Saints (1921): The hagiographer Alban Butler (1710–1773) wrote in his Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Pri…

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Saint Thalelæus (or Thalilaeus Epiklautos, Greek: Θαλλελαίου; died c. 460) was a 5th-century Syrian hermit known for continuous weeping. His feast day is 27 February. Saint Thalelæus was born in Cilicia in Asia Minor.

1589–1662 · Reformation · Carmelites

María de Jesús y del Espino was born in Hoyos del Espino, Ávila, in 1589 and died in the odor of sanctity at the Monastery of the Mother of God in Piedrahíta, Ávila, on January 22, 1662. She was a 17th-century Spanish mystic of the Carmelite ascetic school.

815–867 · Medieval

Theodora (Greek: Θεοδώρα; c. 815 – c. 867), sometimes called Theodora the Armenian or Theodora the Blessed, was Byzantine empress as the wife of Byzantine emperor Theophilos from 830 to 842 and regent for the couple's young son Michael III, after the death of Theophilos, from 842…

500–490 · Early Church

Theodora of Alexandria (Greek: Θεοδώρα Άλεξανδρείας) was a saint and martyr who lived during the 5th century in Alexandria, during the reign of Emperor Zeno.

720 · Medieval

8th-century Byzantine monastic saint

812–892 · Medieval

Theodora of Thessalonica (Greek: Θεοδώρα Θεσσαλονίκης; 812–892) was a Byzantine nun and saint from Aegina. Her hagiography is the longest ever written about a holy woman in Byzantine history. The Eastern Orthodox Church celebrates her feast day on 29 August.

1718–1791 · Modern

Theodore of Sanaksar (born Ivan Ignatievich Ushakov in 1718 in the village of Burnakovo, Rybinsk Uyezd, Yaroslavl Province; died February 19, 1791 (March 2 in the Gregorian calendar)) was a monk of the Russian Orthodox Church and the uncle of Admiral Fyodor Fyodorovich Ushakov.

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St. Theodore is an Orthodox saint who is recorded to have lived in the sixth century. In his youth Theodore accepted the call from Christ to enter into the desert as a monk solitary.

314–368 · Early Church

Theodorus of Tabennese (c. 314 – 368), also known as Abba Theodorus and Theodore the Sanctified, was the spiritual successor to Pachomius and played a crucial role in preventing the first Christian cenobitic monastic federation from collapsing after the death of its founder.

1300–1392 · Medieval

Theodosius the Cenobiarch or Theodosius the Great (c. 423–529) was a Cappadocian Christian monk, abbot, and saint who was a founder and organizer of the cenobitic way of monastic life in the Judaean desert. His feast day is on January 11.

1029–1074 · Medieval

Theodosius of Kiev or Theodosius of the Caves (Russian: Феодосий Печерский, romanized: Feodosy Pechersky; Ukrainian: Феодосій Печерський, romanized: Feodosiy Pechers'kyy) is an 11th-century saint who brought cenobitic monasticism to Kievan Rus' and, together with Anthony of Kiev,…

1300–1363 · Medieval

The Holy Venerable Theodosius of Tarnovo (Bulgarian: Теодосий Търновски, Greek: Άγιος Θεοδόσιος του Τυρνόβου, Teodosiy Tarnovski) (died 1363) was a high-ranking 14th-century Bulgarian cleric and hermit. He is credited with establishing hesychasm in the Second Bulgarian Empire.

1460–1548 · Reformation

The Venerable Theophilus the Myroblyte was born in 1460 in Nea Zichni. He died in 1548 on Mount Athos.

1331–1426 · Medieval

Therapont of Belozersk (1331 – 27 May 1426) (Russian: Ферапонт Бело(е)зерский, Therapont Belo(e)zersky), also known as Therapont of Mozhaysk, known to the world as Feodor Poskochin, was a Russian Orthodox monk credited with the foundation of the Ferapontov Monastery in Northern R…

1915–2005 · Contemporary · Order of Discalced Nuns of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel

Tereza Margarida of the Heart of Mary OCD (born Maria Luiza Rezende Marques; 24 December 1915 – 14 November 2005), was a Brazilian Discalced Carmelite nun from the interior of the state of Minas Gerais.

1897–1926 · Contemporary · Carmelite Daughters of the Divine Heart of Jesus

Teresa Ysseldijk (Apeldoorn, November 13, 1897 – Saint Louis, March 10, 1926), known as Maria Teresa of the Most Holy Trinity, was a Dutch Catholic religious sister of the Congregation of the Carmelite Sisters of the Divine Heart of Jesus who lived her religious life in Missouri.…

1508–1537 · Reformation · Franciscans

Thomas Belchiam (1508–1537) was an English Franciscan who died in Newgate Prison in the reign of Henry VIII. He is a Catholic martyr, declared venerable by Pope Leo XIII. The year of death is in question: the Victoria County History for Kent puts the events in 1534.

1821–1861 · Modern

Choe Yang-Eop Thomas (1 March 1821 – 15 June 1861), also spelled Ch'oe Yang-Ōp Thomas, was a Korean Roman Catholic priest during the Joseon dynasty, who travelled across Eastern Asia as a seminarian and priest before settling at last after a period of persecution back in his home…

1873–1925 · Contemporary

Venerable Thomas of Kurialacherry (14 January 1873 – 2 June 1925) was a Catholic bishop from Kerala. Kurialacherry was a member of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, had his ordination in May 1899 from Cardinal Cassantha, and was bishop of what would become the Archdiocese of Chan…

1780–1841 · Modern

Palackal Thoma Malpan (c. 1780–1841) was an Indian Catholic priest of the Syro-Malabar Church based in India. He was the senior priest and founder who envisaged the formation of the first native religious institution in India, Carmelites of Mary Immaculate also known as C.M.I.

1809–1860 · Modern

Théodelinde Bourcin-Dubouché, known commonly as Marie-Thérèse of the Heart of Jesus (French: Marie-Thérèse du Cœur de Jésus) (2 May 1809, Montauban – 30 August 1863, Paris), was a Roman Catholic French nun, artist, and founder of the Sisters of Adoration in Paris, France.

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.

1805–1885 · Modern · Sisters of the Cenacle

Thérèse Couderc (1 February 1805 – 26 September 1885) - born Marie-Victoire Couderc - was a French religious sister and the co-founder of the Sisters of the Cenacle.

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…

1450–1492 · Medieval

Tikhon of Kaluga (died 16 June 1492) was a Russian Orthodox hegumen and saint. He grew up in Moscow and was tonsured a monk as a young man. He then moved to a forest near Medin in Kaluga, living in the hollow of an oak tree.

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The Venerable Tit was a warrior and monk of the Russian State. He is buried at the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra.

1882–1936 · Contemporary · Dominican Order

Titus Maria Horten, OP (born Franz Aloysius Laurenz Friedrich Horten on August 9, 1882, in Elberfeld, now a district of Wuppertal; died January 25, 1936, in Oldenburg) was a German Dominican friar and Roman Catholic priest from the Horten entrepreneurial family.

1370–1447 · Medieval · Franciscans

Tommaso Bellacci (1370 - 31 October 1447) was an Italian member of the Third Order of Saint Francis. Bellacci was a butcher and became a religious after turning his life around from one of sin to one of penance and servitude to God.

1908–1994 · Contemporary · Society of Jesus

Tomás Morales Pérez (30 October 1908 - 1 October 1994) was a Spanish Catholic priest and professed member from the Jesuits who founded the Institutos Seculares de los Cruzados de María.

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.

1190 · Medieval

Titus of the Kiev Caves (died c. 1190) was a 12th-century presbyter and monk of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, venerated as a venerable saint in the Russian Orthodox Church.

1219–1246 · Medieval · Third Order of Saint Francis

Umiliana de' Cerchi (1219 - 19 May 1246) was an Italian Roman Catholic widow and a member of the Third Order of Saint Francis. She came from the Cerchi family, prominent merchants, and was married in her mid-adolescence as part of a political alliance that her ambitious father h…

1628–1703 · Modern · Capuchin Poor Clares

Ursula Micaela Morata (Cartagena, Spain, 21 October 1628 – Alicante, Spain, 9 January 1703) was a nun, mystic, and founder of the convent of the Capuchin Poor Clares in Alicante, Spain. Born into a well-to-do family, Morata was the youngest of thirteen brothers and sisters.

1828–1905 · Contemporary · Order of Friars Minor

Johannes Ludovicus Paquay (17 November 1828 - 1 January 1905), also known as Valentinus, was a Belgian Roman Catholic priest and a professed member from the Order of Friars Minor.

1876–1929 · Contemporary

Varghese Payyappilly was an Indian Syro-Malabar priest from Kerala and the founder of the congregation of Sisters of the Destitute. He was declared Venerable by Pope Francis on 14 April 2018.

1831–1906 · Contemporary

Barnabas of Gethsemane (secular name Vasily Ilyich Merkulov; January 24, 1831, Prudishchi, Tula Governorate — February 17, 1906, Sergiyev Posad, Moscow Governorate) was a hieromonk of the Gethsemane Skete of the Trinity Lavra of St.