Saint Tarsille de Rome

Tharsilla was one of the three aunts of Pope Gregory I, known as Gregory the Great. She lived in the 6th century. Together with her sister Aemiliana, she consecrated herself to God and lived in piety and mortification. Her nephew said that she was the most assiduous in prayer, the most severe in abstinence and modesty, and that she thus attained an eminent degree of holiness. She is commemorated in the Catholic Church on December 24, along with Adela of Pfalzel, founder of the monastery of Pfalzel in the Rhineland, and Delphinus of Bordeaux, Bishop of Bordeaux. Tharsilla was depicted in an etching by Jacques Callot in 1632.