Tomo Stantić (Gerard of Saint Stephen)
Discalced Carmelite priest in the Bačka region
Who they were
Discalced Carmelite priest born at Djurdjin near Subotica, who worked in the Bačka region through its repeated changes of government and helped form the Hungarian novices at the Carmel of Sombor, where he died.
The miracles
No miracle has been approved. The cause is at its first stage.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Congregation for the Causes of Saints granted the nulla osta for his cause on 25 November 1985; the diocesan inquiry closed on 21 September 2003.
The cause
The cause continues. No postulation address is published here yet. Favours received through this person’s intercession, and offers of help, are best sent to the religious order or congregation they belonged to, or to the diocese where the cause was opened; either will pass them to the postulation.
Checked against the sources listed on 24 September 2026. Corrections welcome.