Theresa of Portugal, Queen consort of León«Teresa Sanches de Portugal, Rainha consorte de Leão / Tarasia / Tareja»

(1178–1250)
Nun
Orders/Societies Associated with: Cistercians*
Place of birth:Kingdom of Portugal
Place of death:Kingdom of Portugal
Place(s) associated with:Abbey of Our Lady of Lorvão††
Feastday
17 June
Beatification
13/12/1705 by Clemens XI
*Order of Cistercians / (Sacer) Ordo Cisterciensis [1098]
Regno de Portugal / Regnum Portugalliae [1139–1415]
††Mosteiro de Santa Maria de Lorvão [9th cent.–1887]

Saints

This is by no means an exhaustive collection of saints. Many newly canonised saints may be missing and many local saints for which I could only find scant information on have been left out. But this is a substantial collection nonetheless.

The names of the saints are listed as they would have appeared in the time the saint lived (to the best I can determine). Click on the saint’s name in the list to see more information about that saint. If you wish to see saints for a different date, select that date below. Or you can select a saint by their name or by places they are associated with.

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Sources

Information has been gathered predominantly from the following books:
D’Arcy, Mary Ryan. The Saints of Ireland. St. Paul, MN: Irish American Cultural Institute. 1974.
Kelly, Sean and Rogers, Rosemary. The Saint-a-Day Guide. New York: Random House Trade Paperback. 2001.
Ó Riain, Pádraig. A Dictionary of Irish Saints. Dublin: Four Courts Press. 2011.
Thurston S.J., Herbert J. and Attwater Donald, eds. Butler’s Lives of the Saints. Westminster, MD: Christian Classics. 1990
and the following websites:
and various vetted articles in: Wikipedia