lundi 24 décembre 2012

Sainte TARSILLE (TARSILLA, TRASILLA, THRASILLA) et Sainte ÉMILIENNE (EMILIANA) de ROME, vierges

Pictorial Lives of the Saints illustration for Saints Thrasilla and Emiliana, Virgins

Sainte Tarsile

Tante de Grégoire le Grand (VIe siècle)

ou Tarsilla.

Tante de saint Grégoire le Grand, son neveu, qui en parle longuement dans son homélie XXXVII sur les évangiles: "Elle était la plus assidue à l'oraison... elle était la plus sévère pour l'abstinence... elle était la plus humble dans sa modestie." Venant d'un Pape, c'est déjà le panégyrique d'une canonisation.

À Rome, commémoraison de sainte Tarsilla, vierge, vers 550. Saint Grégoire le Grand, son neveu, a loué sa prière continuelle, le sérieux de sa vie et la rigueur exceptionnelle de son abstinence.

Martyrologe romain

SOURCE : https://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/9777/Sainte-Tarsile.html

Sainte Emilienne

Tante de saint Grégoire le Grand (VIe siècle)

Tante du pape saint Grégoire le Grand qui en parle avec admiration. Elle vécut à Rome.

À Rome, commémoraison de sainte Émilienne, vierge, tante du pape saint Grégoire le Grand, qui passa de cette terre vers le Seigneur peu de temps après sa sœur Tharsilla, au VIe siècle.

Martyrologe romain

SOURCE : https://nominis.cef.fr/contenus/saint/373/Sainte-Emilienne.html

Sainte TARSILLE et Sainte ÉMILIENNE

Vierges

(VIe siècle)

Tarsille et Émilienne étaient deux tantes paternelles de saint Grégoire le Grand, et c'est ce saint Pape qui nous raconte leur touchante histoire. Elles renoncèrent ensemble au monde, ensemble consacrèrent à Dieu leur virginité, et demeurèrent dans leur maison comme dans un couvent. Elles avaient une soeur nommée Gordienne, qui avait pris les mêmes engagements, mais elle était retombée peu à peu, au grand chagrin de Tarsille et d'Émilienne, dans l'amour du siècle. Elles la reprenaient avec douceur, mais l'esprit inconstant de Gordienne oubliait bien vite leurs charitables leçons.

Tarsille, étant la plus assidue à l'oraison, la plus généreuse dans les voies de la mortification, arriva bientôt à un éminent degré de sainteté. Elle eut un jour une vision, où saint Félix, son aïeul, lui apparut et, lui montrant un palais d'une splendeur merveilleuse, lui dit; "Venez avec moi dans ce lieu de lumière." Le lendemain elle fut saisie d'une fièvre qui la conduisit en peu de temps au tombeau. A l'heure de son agonie, elle éleva tout à coup la voix et dit à ceux qui entouraient sa couche: "Retirez-vous et faites place: je vois Jésus qui vient à moi." Et tandis qu'elle fixait l'objet de sa vision, son âme fut délivrée des liens du corps. L'odeur dont la chambre fut remplie confirma la vision que la vierge avait eue avant de mourir. Quand on lava son corps, avant de l'ensevelir, on remarqua que ses genoux et ses coudes étaient recouverts d'une croûte épaisse et dure, témoignage de ses longues prières.

Peu de jours après, Tarsille apparut à Émilienne et lui dit: "Ma soeur, venez, je n'ai point célébré avec vous la naissance du Seigneur, mais nous ferons ensemble la fête de l'Épiphanie. – Si vous m'appelez seule, répondit Émilienne, que deviendra notre soeur Gordienne? – Venez, vous dis-je, reprit Tarsille avec tristesse; Gordienne est décidée à rester avec les mondains." Après cette vision, Émilienne tomba malade et mourut. Saint Grégoire rappelle, à propos des trois soeurs, que celui-là seul qui aura persévéré sera sauvé, et que rien ne sert de commencer, si l'on n'achève l'oeuvre de son salut. Qu'il est triste de penser que, dans les mêmes familles, il y aura des élus et des réprouvés!

Abbé L. Jaud, Vie des Saints pour tous les jours de l'année, Tours, Mame, 1950

SOURCE : http://magnificat.ca/cal/fr/saints/sainte_tarsille_et_sainte_emilienne.html

Saint Trasilla

Also known as

Tarsilla

Tarsilia

Tharsilla

Thrasilla

Memorial

24 December

Profile

Sister of Saint Sylvia of Rome and Saint Emiliana. Aunt of Pope Saint Gregory the Great. Lived as a religious sister without joining any order, taking private vows. Received a vision of Pope Saint Felix III, an ancestor, who encouraged her to leave this vale of tears; she died a few days later on Christmas Eve. A few days after her death, she appeared to Emiliana with the same message; Emiliana died on Epiphany eve.

Born

Roman citizen

Died

24 December, year unknown

relics at the Oratory of Saint Andrew, Celian Hill, RomeItaly

Canonized

Pre-Congregation

Patronage

single laywomen

Additional Information

Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate

Catholic Encyclopedia

Lives of the Saints, by Father Alban Butler

Pictorial Lives of the Saint

Roman Martyrology1914 edition

Short Lives of the Saints, by Eleanor Cecilia Donnelly

books

Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

other sites in english

Catholic Lane

Catholic Online

Wikipedia

video

YouTube PlayList

sitios en español

Martirologio Romano2001 edición

fonti in italiano

Santi e Beati, by Dominic Agasso

MLA Citation

“Saint Trasilla“. CatholicSaints.Info. 17 May 2022. Web. 24 December 2022. <https://catholicsaints.info/saint-trasilla/>

SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/saint-trasilla/

Saint Emiliana of Rome

Memorial

30 June

Profile

A virgin-martyr. No other information has survived.

Died

martyred in RomeItaly, date unknown

Canonized

Pre-Congregation

Additional Information

Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate

Pictorial Lives of the Saint

Roman Martyrology

books

Our Sunday Visitor’s Encyclopedia of Saints

video

YouTube PlayList

MLA Citation

“Saint Emiliana of Rome“. CatholicSaints.Info. 25 December 2018. Web. 24 December 2022. <https://catholicsaints.info/saint-emiliana-of-rome/>

SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/saint-emiliana-of-rome/

Pictorial Lives of the Saints – Saints Thrasilla and Emiliana, Virgins

Article

Saints Thrasilla and Emiliana were aunts of Saint Gregory the Great. They lived in their father’s house as retired as in a monastery, far removed from the conversation of men; and, exciting one another to virtue by discourse and example, soon made considerable progress in spiritual life. Thrasilla was favored one night with a vision of her uncle, Saint Felix, Pope, who showed her a seat prepared for her in heaven, saying: “Come; I will receive you into this habitation of light.” She fell sick of a fever the next day. When in her agony, with her eyes fixed on heaven, she cried out to those that were present: “Depart! make room! Jesus is coming!” Soon after these words she breathed out her pious soul into the hands of God on the 24th of December. A few days after she appeared to her sister, Emiliana, and invited her to celebrate with her the Epiphany in eternal bliss, fell sick, and died on the 8th of January.

MLA Citation

John Dawson Gilmary Shea. “Saints Thrasilla and Emiliana, Virgins”. Pictorial Lives of the Saints1922. CatholicSaints.Info. 15 December 2018. Web. 8 February 2021. <https://catholicsaints.info/pictorial-lives-of-the-saints-saints-thrasilla-and-emil https://catholicsaints.info/pictorial-lives-of-the-saints-saints-thrasilla-and-emiliana-virgins/

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SOURCE : https://catholicsaints.info/pictorial-lives-of-the-saints-saints-thrasilla-and-emiliana-virgins/

Sts. Trasilla and Emiliana

Aunts of St. Gregory the Greatvirgins in the sixth century, given in the Roman Martyrology, the former on 24 December, the latter on 5 January. St. Gregory (Hom. XXXVIII, 15, on the Gospel of St. Matthew, and Lib. Dial., IV, 16) relates that his father, the Senator Gordian, had three sisters who vowed themselves to God and led a life of virginityfasting, and prayer in their own home on the Clivus Scauri in Rome. They were Trasilla (Tarsilla, Tharsilla, Thrasilla), Emiliana, and Gordiana. Gordiana, led on at first by the words and example of her sisters, did not persevere but returned to the vanities of the world. After many years in the service of GodSt. Felix III, an ancestor, appeared to Trasilla and bade her enter her abode of glory. On the eve of Christmas she died, seeing Jesus beckoning. A few days later she appeared to Emiliana, who had followed well in her footsteps, and invited her to the celebration of Epiphany in heaven. Tradition says that their relics and those of their mother, St. Silvia, are in the Oratory of St. Andrew on the Celian Hill.

Mershman, Francis. "Sts. Trasilla and Emiliana." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 15. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. 26 Dec. 2019 <http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15026a.htm>.

Transcription. This article was transcribed for New Advent by Paul T. Crowley. Dedicated to Mrs. Margi Courtessi & Mrs. Peggy Crowley.

Ecclesiastical approbation. Nihil Obstat. October 1, 1912. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor. Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.

Copyright © 2020 by Kevin Knight. Dedicated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

SOURCE : http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15026a.htm

December 24

SS. Thrasilla and Emiliana, Virgins

From St. Gregory the Great, Dial. l. 4, c. 16, and Hom. 38, in Evang.

ST. GREGORY the Great had three aunts, who were sisters to his father Gordian, the senator, and having by vow consecrated their virginity to God, they practised the exercises of an ascetic or religious life in their father’s house. Their names were Thrasilla, who was the eldest, Emiliana, and Gordiana. Thrasilla and Emiliana, renouncing the vanities of the world on the same day, started together in the glorious course to perfection, and were still more united by the fervour of their hearts and the bands of holy charity, than by blood. They lived in their father’s house as retired as in a monastery, far removed from the conversation of men; and, exciting one another to virtue by discourse and example, soon made a considerable progress in a spiritual life. They were so disengaged from the world, so careful in mortifying their senses, and maintaining a strict union of their souls with God, that they seemed to have forgotten their bodies, and arose above all considerations of earthly things. Gordiana joined them in their vow and holy exercises, but flagged by the way, and, loving to converse with the world, by degrees admitted it into her heart, so as to exclude the Almighty. Thrasilla and Emiliana could not see her unhappy change without the deepest concern, and, tempering remonstrances with all the sweetness that the most tender affection and charity could inspire, gained so far upon her, that, full of confusion, she promised amendment. This, however, she executed only by halves, appeared often impatient of silence and retirement, and showed too little relish for spiritual exercises and conversation, and too much for the world. By this lukewarmness, the good impressions which the zeal of her sisters made in her mind, were always worn out again, and after their death she fell from the duties of the state which she had voluntarily taken upon herself. A dreadful example! but such as the world is daily full of. Yet others neglect to take warning, and so fall into the same snare. The best hearts are capable of corruption; and those who set out with honest meanings, when they once open their hearts to vanity and the world, are betrayed to tread the steps of vice sooner than they are aware. Nothing blinds the understanding and intoxicates the soul more effectually that vanity. A person who begins to entertain it, perceives no harm in the first steps; but loses reservedness, is led on almost imperceptibly, and is at last surprised to feel the chains which she is held by. The two happy sisters, who persevered in the paths of eternal life, enjoyed the sweetness of divine peace and love, and the comfort and joy of fervour and devotion; and were called to receive the recompence of their fidelity before the fall of Gordiana. St. Gregory tells us that Thrasilla was favoured one night with a vision of her uncle St. Felix, pope, who showed her a seat prepared for her in heaven, saying, “Come; I will receive you into this habitation of light.” She fell sick of a fever the next day. When in her agony, with her eyes fixed on heaven, she cried out to those who were present: “Depart! make room! Jesus is coming!” Soon after these words she breathed out her pious soul into the hands of God on the 24th of December. The skin of her knees was found to be hardened, like the hide of a camel, by her continual prayer. A few days after, she appeared to her sister Emiliana, and invited her to celebrate with her the epiphany in eternal bliss. Emiliana fell sick, and died on the 8th of January. Both are named on the respective days of their death in the Roman Martyrology.

Precious in the sight of God is the death of his saints. 1 This is the great triumph of a soul over hell; a spectacle most glorious in the eyes of the whole court of heaven, giving joy to the angels. To us, banished pilgrims on earth, nothing certainly can bring sweeter comfort amidst our tears, or be a more powerful motive to withdraw our affections from the toys of this world, or to raise our hearts above its frowns, than to have before our eyes the happiness of dying the death of the saints. No one can read without being strongly affected with these sentiments the account which Janus Erythræus, (that is, the elegant and ingenious John Victor Rossi,) who was then at Rome, gives of the passage of brother John Baptist, a holy capuchin, out of this world. 2 This humble friar, who was called in the world Alphonsus III., when duke of Modena, renounced his sovereignty, divested himself of all his worldly goods, and, embracing the most austere life of a Capuchin Franciscan, in 1629, distinguished himself from his brethren only by a greater fervour in his penitential severities and heavenly contemplation. He died at Rome in 1644; closing his eyes to the world with so much interior joy, such strong desires to go to God, such humility, resignation, holy peace, and sweet breathings of divine love, as to make many in the world envy the choice he had made, and grudge that he had purchased so great a happiness at so cheap a rate. We all pray with Balaam that our death may be like that of the saints. But for this we must make the preparation for death the great business of our lives, learn perfectly to die to the world and ourselves, and ground and daily improve ourselves in the spirit of the saints, which is that of sincere humility, patience, resignation, and the most ardent charity.

Note 1. Ps. cxv. 15. [back]

Note 2. James Nicius Erythræus, ep. 65. [back]

Rev. Alban Butler (1711–73).  Volume XII: December. The Lives of the Saints.  1866.

SOURCE : http://je-n-oeucume-guere.blogspot.ca/2010_12_01_archive.html

Santa Tarsilia (o Tarsilla)

24 dicembre

Roma, secolo VI

La vigilia di Natale, la Chiesa - oltre a tutti i santi avi di Gesù, figlio di Davide, Abramo e Adamo - propone alla venerazione Tarsilia (o Tarsilla, VI sec.), zia paterna di Papa Gregorio I Magno. Proprio le opere del nipote ci dicono qualcosa di autorevole sulla vita di lei. Monaca con le sorelle Emiliana e Gordiana, visse la carità in tempi di peste e carestia. Dopo morta, apparve a Emiliana. «Ho fatto Natale senza di te, ma vieni a festeggiare insieme l'Epifania». E infatti questa morì pochi giorni dopo, il 5 gennaio. Si vuole che i corpi siano stati deposti dal nipote nell'area della chiesa romana dei Santi Andrea e Gregorio al Celio. (Avvenire)

Etimologia: Tarsilia = proveniente da Tarso (città della Cilicia)

Martirologio Romano: A Roma, commemorazione di santa Tarsilla, vergine, della quale san Gregorio Magno, suo nipote, loda l’assidua preghiera, il rigore di vita e il singolare spirito di penitenza.

E' una delle zie paterne di Gregorio I Magno, che fu papa dal 590 al 604. Le altre sono Emiliana (o Amelia) e Gordiana. La loro è una delle famiglie più illustri di Roma: tra gli avi ci sono anche un imperatore, Olibrio, nel V secolo, e il papa Felice III (526-530).

Però di Tarsilla (o Tarsilia) sappiamo pochissimo. Il suo nome compare soltanto nell’XI secolo in un martirologio locale (che è un elenco di santi, martiri e no), e poi, dopo il Concilio di Trento, nel Martirologio romano, quello ufficiale per tutta la Chiesa cattolica. L’unica fonte autorevole sulla sua vita è il nipote papa, Gregorio Magno. (Ma Gregorio racconta vicende di parenti soltanto quando gli servono come esempi concreti e attuali, per rendere efficace il suo insegnamento). Tarsilla e le sorelle hanno certo aiutato la cognata Silvia ad allevare il piccolo Gregorio, dalla salute sempre fragile. Poi, finché sono in vita, lo seguono negli studi e nelle cariche. Gregorio, ancora giovane, diventa capo dell’amministrazione civile in Roma: una Roma ormai senza l’imperatore, il quale risiede a Costantinopoli, e con un Senato che non conta più nulla. Poi troviamo Gregorio ambasciatore del papa Pelagio II e al tempo stesso monaco, capo di una piccola comunità raccolta in una sua residenza sul Celio. Di lì Gregorio uscirà per fare il papa.

Tarsilla si è già fatta monaca, tirandosi dietro le sue sorelle. Monache all’occidentale: ossia non isolate nella solitudine, ma dedite alla vita comune, votate alla castità e alla preghiera continua. Ma non solo. In questo terribile VI secolo, funestato da alluvioni, pestilenze (nella miniatura: la processione di san Gregorio Magno in occasione della peste che colpì Roma nel 590), guerra tra Goti e Bizantini, invasione longobarda, a Roma è un continuo affluire di gente in miseria. "La carestia", scrive Gregorovius, "stringeva la città in una morsa di fame". Così la carità diventa compito abituale anche di queste monache, mai estranee alla vita degli altri. Tarsilla è la loro guida in tutto, a cominciare dalla preghiera: da morta, le troveranno ginocchia e gomiti incalliti per il continuo pregare. (La sorella Gordiana prega meno. Anzi, a un certo punto lascia la comunità e si sposa con l’amministratore dei suoi beni).

Il ricordo di Tarsilla, pur senza l’accompagnamento di fatti prodigiosi, durerà discreto e tenace nel tempo, arricchito anche da un singolare racconto di Gregorio Magno. Egli dice che questa zia è morta poco prima di Natale (l’anno tuttavia rimane sconosciuto). E aggiunge che sua sorella Emiliana, sopravvissuta, un giorno ha sentito la sua voce che le diceva: "Ho fatto Natale senza di te, ma vieni a festeggiare insieme l’Epifania". Secondo una tradizione, infatti, Emiliana (o Amelia) muore proprio il 5 gennaio successivo alla morte di Tarsilla. E tuttora la sua festa si colloca in questa data.

Autore: Domenico Agasso

SOURCE : http://www.santiebeati.it/dettaglio/83050

Santa Emiliana Vergine

5 gennaio

VI sec.

E' ricordata dal nipote, san Gregorio Magno, per aver saputo curare la propria chiamata. Le uniche notizie biografiche di Emiliana le abbiamo proprio grazie al Papa vissuto nel VI secolo, che cita la zia paterna in un'omelia. Emiliana, assieme alle sorelle Tarsilla e Gordiana, si ritirò a vita consacrata e ascetica probabilmente nella casa di famiglia. Gordiana però a un certo punto scelse il matrimonio; Tarsilla, invece, morì vicino al Natale di un anno imprecisato. Apparì, poi, alla sorella Emiliana invitandola a seguirla per l'Epifania, e così avvenne.

Martirologio Romano: A Roma, commemorazione di santa Emiliana, vergine, zia del papa san Gregorio Magno, che, poco dopo sua sorella Tarsilla, fece anch’ella ritorno al Signore.

Zia paterna di san Gregorio Magno, fu introdotta dal Baronio nel Martirologio Romano al 5 gennaio, ma non risulta che fosse questo il dies natali. Le uniche notizie su di lei ci sono date da san Gregorio, che ne parlò in un discorso commentando il passo evangelico in cui si dice che molti sono i chiamati, ma pochi gli eletti. Emiliana, infatti, insieme con le sorelle Tarsilla e Gordiana, si consacrò al Signore conducendo vita ascetica nella stessa casa paterna.

Mentre Tarsilla ed Emiliana progredivano nella via della perfezione, Gordiana a poco a poco ritornò alla vita mondana fino a sposare il suo amministratore. Tarsilla morì poco prima di Natale (non si sa di quale anno) e apparendo alla sorella Emiliana le disse: "Vieni, ut quia natale Dominicum sine te feci, sancta Theophaniam ima tecum faccian"; difatti Emiliana morì dopo qualche giorno.

Autore: Agostino Amore

SOURCE : http://www.santiebeati.it/Detailed/36330.html

Tarsila, Santa

Virgen, 24 de diciembre

Por: Alban Butler | Fuente: Vida de los santos

Virgen

Martirologio Romano: En Roma, conmemoración de santa Tarsila, virgen, cuya continua oración, gravedad de vida y singular abstinencia alaba san Gregorio Magno, su sobrino († c. 593).

Gordiano el regionarius, padre de san Gregorio el Grande, tuvo tres hermanas que llevaron una vida ascética de reclusión religiosa en su casa. Los nombres de las tías de san Gregorio eran: Tarsila, la mayor, Emiliana y Gordiana.

Con más fuerza que el vínculo de la sangre, unía a Tarsila y Emiliana el fervor de sus corazones y su común caridad. Vivían en la casa que había sido de su padre, en el Clivus Scauri, como en un monasterio, y unas a otras se alentaban en las prácticas de la virtud por la palabra y el ejemplo, de manera que hicieron grandes progresos en la vida espiritual.

Aunque Gordiana se unió a ellas, no tardó en cansarse del silencio y el retiro, y se sintió inclinada a adoptar otra clase de vida, por lo que se casó con su tutor. Tarsila y Emiliana perseveraron en la senda que habían elegido, contentas en la paz de su retiro y en la entrega de su amor a Dios, hasta que fueron llamadas a recibir la recompensa de su fidelidad.

San Gregorio nos dice que Tarsila gozó de la gracia de una visión de su bisabuelo, el papa San Félix III (II), quien le mostró el lugar que estaba destinado a ella en el cielo, con estas palabras:

«Ven, que yo habré de recibirte en estas moradas de luz».

Poco después de aquella experiencia. Tarsila cayó gravemente enferma y, mientras sus amigos y parientes rodeaban su lecho de muerte, comenzó a gritar: «¡Apártense! ¡Atrás, atrás! ¡Ya viene Jesús, mi Salvador!». Con estas palabras exhaló su último suspiro y entregó el alma a Dios en la víspera de la Navidad. Cuando fue amortajada, se descubrió que en sus rodillas y en sus codos, tenía unos callos tan gruesos y endurecidos «como los de un camello», debido a sus continuas plegarias que decía hincada y apoyada en un reclinatorio.

Pocos días después de su muerte, se apareció en sueños a Emiliana y la llamó para celebrar juntas la Epifanía en el cielo. En efecto, Emiliana murió el 5 de Enero del año siguiente. A las dos santas hermanas, se las nombra en los respectivos días de su muerte en el Martirologio Romano.

VIDAS DE LOS SANTOS Edición 1965

Autor: Alban Butler (†)

Traductor: Wilfredo Guinea, S.J.

Editorial: COLLIER'S INTERNATIONAL - JOHN W. CLUTE, S. A.

SOURCE : https://es.catholic.net/op/articulos/60668/tarsila-santa.html#modal

Saints Tarsilla and Emiliana of Rome (d. ~550)

Remembrance Day: 24 December

Saints Tarsilla (Tharsilla, Trasilla, Thrasilla) and Emiliana (Aemiliana, Emilie) were sisters and came from an old Roman noble family, gens Anicia, like also Saint Pope Felix II (III) (483-92) (their grandfather) and probably the holy Pope Agapetus I (535-36) had come from. Their brother was the senator Gordian, a very rich patrician with a magnificent town house on the Celio Hill and large estates in Sicily. He became the father of the holy Pope Gregory I the Great (590-604) and had received the lower marriages, which at the time was possible for married men, especially wealthy landowners living in Rome. Gregor's mother Sylvia is also revered as a saint, and she lived in a monastery after her husband's death.

This was an era where people had lost all hope for the world and were just waiting for the end of the earth. The Lombards threatened, hunger and plague ravaged. Rome had become the city of deserted and dilapidated palaces. Rich and learned retreated to the monasteries with their libraries, and both women and men of Rome's noblest families gave away their possessions and settled down in caves and cellars. At this time there were more than three thousand nuns and hermits in Rome.

Tarsilla was the eldest and Emiliana the youngest of the sisters. They also had a third, middle sister named Gordiana (Gordia). When the sisters were young, they lived under strict religious discipline as nuns in their father Gordian's house in Clivus Scauri in Rome. Gordiana proved unfit for the monastic life and eventually left to marry the manager of her estates, but Tarsilla and Emiliana maintained their lifestyle until their deaths. They were not actual nuns in a monastery, but they were consecrated (sacratae) and lived according to a rule (sub districtione regulari degentes) in their own house.

Tarsilla died on December 24 around 550 after an apparition of her grandfather, Pope Felix. Emiliana had a vision or dream where Tarsilla invited her to celebrate the epiphany in heaven, and she died a few days after her sister, on January 5, the day before the epiphany. Their memorial day in the Martyrologium Romanum is Tarsilla's death day on December 24. Emiliana can also be remembered on the day of her death, January 5. It is mainly from Pope Gregory's writings that we know of Tarsilla and Emiliana and their holy life, visions and death, especially from his 38th homily on the Gospel of Matthew and his Dialogues (IV, 16). Tradition says that their relics rest in the church of Sant'Andrea on Monte Celio together with the relics of their sister-in-law, Gregor's mother Silvia.

Sources : Attwater/Cumming, Butler (XII), Benedictines, Delaney, Bunson, Schauber/Schindler, Gorys, KIR, CE, CSO, Patron Saints SQPN, Infocatho, Heiligenlexikon, santiebeati.it, zeno.org, heiligen-3s.nl - Compilation and translation: p. Per Einar Odden

SOURCE : https://www-katolsk-no.translate.goog/biografier/historisk/tharsila?_x_tr_sch=http&_x_tr_sl=no&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=sc