Emiliana

Saint Emiliana was a virgin of Rome in the sixth century, a paternal aunt of the holy Pope Gregory the Great. She reposed on 5 January.

She belonged to the old Anicia family. With her sisters Trasilla and Gordiana she vowed virginity and lived in her father's house on the Clivus Scauri a life of fasting and prayer under a rule, without being in a monastery; Gordiana later married. Everything known of her life, visions and repose comes from the writings of Saint Gregory, in his thirty-⁠eighth homily on the Gospel of Matthew and in the Dialogues. Trasilla died on Christmas Eve and then appeared to Emiliana, inviting her to celebrate the Epiphany in heaven; Emiliana reposed on the eve of the feast, on 5 January.

According to tradition the relics of the two sisters and of their mother, Silvia, are in the oratory of Saint Andrew on the Caelian Hill. Emiliana is a saint of the undivided Church, commemorated on 5 January (new style).