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Tarsille de Rome
SaintResearchedDate unknown
Feast: 24 December (not on the universal Roman calendar; kept in the Roman Martyrology or local calendars)
Born
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unknown
Died
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unknown
Beatified
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not on record
Canonised
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not on record
Who they were
At Rome, commemoration of Saint Tarsille, virgin, whose assiduous prayer, austerity of life and singular spirit of penance are praised by her nephew Saint Gregory the Great.
The miracles
There was never a formal cause: she has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.
Why that counted as sanctity
The Roman Martyrology remembers her on 24 December as a Roman virgin praised by her nephew Saint Gregory the Great for prayer and penance.
Sources
- Roman Martyrology, 24 December (Italian Bishops' Conference, Santo del giorno)
- Wikidata Q3515812 — dates, feast day and identifiers (CC0)
Checked against the sources listed on 22 September 2026. Corrections welcome.