Their brother, Senator Gordian, was a rich patrician who owned "a magnificent villa on the Caelian Hill and large estates in Sicily",[1] and who became the father of Pope Gregory I.
[5] According to hagiographer Agnes Dunbar, "[Trasilla] was so constant at her prayers that her knees became hard like those of a camel".
Tradition states that "after many years of service",[4] Felix III, appeared to Trasilla, showed her "a throne prepared for her",[2] and ordered her to enter heaven; "seeing Jesus beckoning"[4] and struck with a fever, she died on Christmas Eve.
[1][2][6][4] Most of what is known about their life, visions, and death are from Gregory, who spoke about them from his 38th homily on the Gospel of Matthew and his Dialogues.
[1] According to tradition, their relics and those of their mother, Silvia, are in the Oratory of Saint Andrew on the Celian Hill.