(47) Tarsilla, Gordiana and Emiliana:
    Gregory says that his father had three sisters who wished to be in religion.  The eldest was named Tarsilla, the second Gordiana and the youngest Emiliana, who was held to be fair.  A bishop gave them their nun's garb and taught them how to lead a holy life.  They dwelt together in their own house.  Tarsilla and Emiliana served God faithfully, but Gordiana became an evil woman.  She loved to walk in the streets, to play and to sing, but she thought it wearisome to talk of holy things.  Her sisters were made sorrowful on her account and reproved her, but to no purpose.  She gave all her life to pleasure and longed to marry.  After many years God wished to take Tarsilla from the woe of the world and in her sleep sent Felix, who had been Pope in his lifetime, to warn her.  Soon after she died.  Thereafter she appeared to Emiliana calling her to heaven.  When both her sisters were dead, Gordiana stood in awe of no one and took a husband, thus breaking her covenant with God. (North-English Homily Collection, Gerould, 1902)