priest, and educator Hara Takashi ( 原 敬): Japanese politician who served as the Prime Minister of Japan from 1918 to 1921. Baptized at the age of 17 John Michael Talbot: American Roman Catholic singer-songwriter-guitarist, once a secular musician in the group Mason Proffit Allen Tate: American poet, essayist and social commentator, and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress Frances Margaret Taylor: founded the Poor Servants of the Mother of God Kateri Tekakwitha: Catholic saint informally known as "Lily of the Mohawks" Tabaraji of Ternate: Indonesian sultan; converted to Roman Catholicism after 1534; baptised with the name Dom Manuel Elliot Griffin Thomas: third bishop for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Saint Thomas John Sparrow David Thompson: first Catholic to be Prime Minister of Canada Meletius Tipaldi: Eastern Catholic bishop, from Orthodox Christianity. Alice B. Toklas: American-born member of the Parisian avant-garde of the early 20th century; had once been Gertrude Stein's lover Edith Tolkien: Englishwoman, known as the wife and muse of novelist J. R. R. Tolkien. Converted in 1913 in order to marry her husband Mabel Tolkien: Mother of English writer, poet, philologist, and academic J. R. R. Tolkien. Converted from being a Baptist in 1900 Meriol Trevor: British biographer, novelist and children's writer Lou Tseng-Tsiang: Chinese Premier and diplomat who became a Benedictine abbot and priest "Pierre-Célestin" Hasekura Tsunenaga: Samurai and Keichō diplomat who toured Europe Rajah Tupas: Filipino prince and son of the Rajah Humabon; converted with his family by Magellan Malcolm Turnbull: 29th Prime Minister of Australia. Julia Gardiner Tyler: second wife of U.S. President John Tyler U Barry Ulanov: editor of Metronome magazine; a founder of the St. Thomas More Society; Mary Lou Williams's godfather Kaspar Ulenberg: theological writer and translator of the Bible who had previously been Lutheran Sigrid Undset: Norwegian Nobel laureate who had previously been agnostic V Sheldon Vanauken: author of A Severe Mercy; a contributing editor of the New Oxford Review J. D. Vance: American author and venture capitalist known for his memoir Hillbilly Elegy Bill Veeck: American baseball team owner Johann Emanuel Veith: Bohemian Roman Catholic preacher Jean-Baptiste Ventura: soldier, mercenary and adventurer of Jewish origin Aubrey Thomas de Vere: Victorian era poet and critic. Johannes Vermeer: Dutch Golden Age painter Adrian Vermeule: American legal scholar and law professor at Harvard Law School Mother Veronica of the Passion: founder of the Sisters of the Apostolic Carmel