Which St. Thomas? Every Saint Named Thomas

Curated and reviewed by Pastor Lyvers

Which St. Thomas? 13 saints and blesseds named Thomas have full entries in this encyclopedia, counting the name in other languages (Tommaso). They are listed below with their dates, feast days and a line on who each one was, beginning with the first century and then century by century.

A name carries a story, and many holy men and women have carried this one. Whether you are choosing a baptismal or confirmation name, looking for the saint behind a parish or a feast, or simply trying to tell one St. Thomas from another, we hope this page helps you find the right one, and that you will ask that saint's prayers along the way. Among the best loved are St. Thomas Aquinas, St. Thomas More and St. Thomas the Apostle.

The apostles and the first century

  • St. Thomas the Apostle 1st century · Feast day July 3

    St. Thomas the Apostle was one of the twelve apostles, remembered as "Doubting Thomas" because he would not believe in the Resurrection until he saw the wounds.

12th century

  • St. Thomas Becket 1118–1170 · Feast day December 29

    St. Thomas Becket was the Archbishop of Canterbury who was killed in his own cathedral by four of King Henry II's knights on December 29, 1170, after years of conflict over the rights of the Church.

13th century

  • St. Thomas Aquinas c. 1225–1274 · Feast day January 28

    St. Thomas Aquinas (about 1225–1274) was an Italian Dominican friar and priest whose Summa Theologiae is the most influential work of theology the Catholic Church has.

  • St. Thomas de Cantilupe c. 1218–1282 · Feast day August 25

    St. Thomas de Cantilupe (about 1218–1282), also called St. Thomas of Hereford, was a scholar, Chancellor of England and Bishop of Hereford who died near Orvieto while traveling to plead his case before the pope.

16th century

  • St. Thomas More 1478–1535 · Feast day June 22

    St. Thomas More (1478–1535) was an English lawyer, writer of Utopia and Lord Chancellor to King Henry VIII who was beheaded on July 6, 1535, for refusing to accept the king as head of the Church in England.

  • Blessed Thomas Green died 1537 · Feast day June 10

    Blessed Thomas Green (sometimes searched as St. Thomas Green) was a priest-monk of the London Charterhouse who refused to accept Henry VIII as head of the Church.

  • St. Thomas of Villanova 1486–1555 · Feast day October 10

    St. Thomas of Villanova (1486/1488–1555) was a Spanish Augustinian friar, university teacher and preacher who became Archbishop of Valencia in 1544 and gave nearly everything he had to the poor, earning the title Father…

  • Blessed Thomas Percy 1528–1572 · Feast day August 22

    Blessed Thomas Percy (1528–1572), 7th Earl of Northumberland, was a nobleman who led the failed Rising of the North.

  • Blessed Thomas Holford died 1588 · Feast day August 28

    Blessed Thomas Holford (died 1588), alias Acton, was the son of a Protestant minister in Cheshire who became a Catholic while working as a tutor, trained for the priesthood at Reims, and served secretly in England for…

17th century

  • St. Thomas Garnet c. 1575–1608 · Feast day June 23

    St. Thomas Garnet (about 1575–1608) was an English Jesuit priest and the first martyr from the English college at St. Omers, the school that became Stonyhurst College.

  • Blessed Thomas Holland 1600–1642 · Feast day December 12

    Blessed Thomas Holland (1600–1642) was a Jesuit priest from Lancashire whose brethren called him the Library of Piety.

  • Blessed Thomas Pickering c. 1621–1679 · Feast day May 9

    Blessed Thomas Pickering (about 1621–1679) was an English Benedictine lay brother, steward to the monks who served Queen Catherine of Braganza's chapel.

20th century

  • Blessed Tommaso Reggio 1818–1901 · Feast day November 22

    Blessed Tommaso Reggio (1818–1901) was a Genoese nobleman who became a priest, a journalist, Bishop of Ventimiglia and then Archbishop of Genoa.

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