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Thursday, November 12
Prophet Ahijah the Shilonite
Sinaxarion

Venerable

Tarsilla

Aunt of Saint Gregory the Dialogist, a virgin ascetic in Rome, who reposed around 581.

Feast
December 24old style January 6
Reposed
5816th century
Place
Pope Felix III
Order
Venerables

Life

Venerable Tarsilla was an aunt of Saint Gregory the Great, a sister of Saint Emiliana and a niece of Pope Felix. She led a life of seclusion and asceticism in her paternal home in Rome and reposed around 581. She is a saint of the undivided Church, remembered on 24 December in the Western calendar (new style).

Commemorated the same day December 24