Saint Tydfil (standard Welsh Tudful; martyred ca. 480) is the legendary dedicatee of Merthyr Tydfil (Welsh: Merthyr Tudful church of Tudful) a town in Glamorgan south Wales.Tydfil gave her name […]
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Gregory of Narek
Gregory of Narek (Armenian: Գրիգոր Նարեկացի Grigor Narekatsi; 951 – 1003) was an Armenian monk poet mystical philosopher theologian and saint of the Armenian Apostolic Church born into a family […]
Dosoftei
Dimitrie Barilă better known under his monastical name Dosoftei (October 26 1624—December 13 1693) was a Moldavian Metropolitan scholar poet and translator.Born in Suceava he attended the school of the […]
Lorcán Ua Tuathail
Lorcán Ua Tuathail also known as Saint Laurence O’Toole (1128 – 14 November 1180) was Archbishop of Dublin at the time of the Norman invasion of Ireland. He played a […]
Thecla
Thecla (Ancient Greek: Θέκλα) was a saint of the early Christian Church and a reported follower of Paul the Apostle. The earliest record of her life comes from the ancient […]
Pier Giorgio Frassati
The Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati T.O.S.D. was an Italian Catholic social activist who was a member of the Third Order of St. Dominic. He has been beatified by the Roman […]
Didacus of Alcalá
Didacus of Alcalá (or the more familiar Spanish: Diego) also known as Diego de San Nicolás was a Spanish lay brother of the Order of Friars Minor who served as […]
Theban Legion
The Theban Legion (also known as the Martyrs of Agaunum) figures in Christian hagiography as an entire Roman legion — of six thousand six hundred and sixty-six men — who […]
Albert Avogadro
Saint Albert Avogadro commonly known as St. Albert of Jerusalem (1149 – 14 September 1214) was a Catholic canon lawyer who served as Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem from 1204 until […]
Boris and Gleb
There are other people known as Saint David and Saint Roman.Boris and Gleb (Russian: Борис и Глеб) Borys and Hlib(Ukrainian: Борис і Гліб) Christian names Roman and David respectively were […]