WELCOME! SAINTS TRASILLA AND EMILIANA, VIRGINS Saints Trasilla and Emiliana were aunts of Saint Gregory the Great . These sixth century virgins are listed in the Roman Martyrology, the former on December 24 , the latter on January 5 . Saint 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, Saint 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 ...