Blessed Stephen Saint-Thibery

• Stephen of Narbonne

Memorial

• 1242 near Toulouse, France

Profile

Franciscan Friar Minor. Abbot. Basing their operations in a farmhouse outside Avignonet, France, he and his brother missioners worked against heresy. Murdered by Albigensian heretics while singing the Te Deum on the eve of Ascension. One of the Martyrs of Toulouse.

Died

• beaten to death on the night of 28 to 29 May 1242 in the church of Avignonet, Toulouse, France

Beatified

• 1 September 1866 by Pope Pius IX (cultus confirmation)

• books
  • Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
  • Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints
• other sites in english
  • Catholic Online
  • Katherine Rabenstein
• siti in italiano
  • Martirologio Romano, 2005 edition
  • Santi e Beati
  • Santi e Beati
  • Santi e Beati

MLA Citation

• “Blessed Stephen Saint-Thibery“. CatholicSaints.Info. 24 May 2015. Web. 24 May 2015. <>