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
Also known as
Tarsilla
Tarsilia
Tharsilla
Thrasilla
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
24 December,
year unknown
relics at the
Oratory of Saint Andrew,
Celian Hill, Rome, Italy
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A virgin-martyr.
No other information has survived.
martyred in Rome, Italy,
date unknown
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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
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John Dawson Gilmary Shea.
“Saints Thrasilla and Emiliana, Virgins”. Pictorial
Lives of the Saints, 1922. CatholicSaints.Info.
15 December 2018. Web. 8 February 2021.
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Sts. Trasilla and
Emiliana
Aunts of St.
Gregory the Great, virgins 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 virginity, fasting,
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 God, St.
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.
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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)
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
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
