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Saints Trasilla (Tarsilla Tharsilla Thrasilla) and Emiliana were aunts of St. Gregory the Great and venerated as virgin saints of the sixth century. They appear in the Roman Martyrology the former on 24 December the latter on 5 January.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: Trasilla Emiliana and Gordiana.

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