24 December – Saints Thrasilla and Emiliana

Modern Hagiography

Roman Martyrology

Lives of the Saints by Alban Butler.

Lives of the Saints by Sabine Baring-Gould.

Pictorial Lives of the Saints 

La vie des saints 

Our Birthday Bouquet Culled from the Shrines of the Saints and the Gardens of the Poets by Eleanor C. Donnelly. (Emiliana)

Our Birthday Bouquet Culled from the Shrines of the Saints and the Gardens of the Poets by Eleanor C. Donnelly. (Thrasilla)

Pictorial Half Hours with the Saints by Auguste François Lecanu. (Thrasilla)

Pictorial Half Hours with the Saints by Auguste François Lecanu. (Emiliana)

Contemporary Hagiography

Thrasilla/Trasilla and Emiliana were aunts of Pope Gregory the Great.  He tells about them in a Homily on Matthew (scroll down to section 15).  He also talks about Tarsilla in one of his Dialogues.

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