Silvya Saint

Silvya Saint
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Not to be confused with Silvia Saint .
Saint Silvia by an altar painter; her eyes are erroneously depicted as dark instead of blue.
Silvia , or Sylvia , (c. 515 – c. 592) was the mother of Gregory the Great . She is venerated as a saint by the Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox Church , [1] which names her a patroness of pregnant women.

Little biographical information about her exists. Her native place is sometimes given as Sicily , sometimes as Rome . Apparently she was of a distinguished family as her husband, the Roman regionarius , Gordianus. She had, besides Gregory, a second son, whose name did not survive through the ages. [2]

Silvia was noted for her great piety , and she gave her sons an excellent education. After the death of her husband, around 573, she devoted herself entirely to religion in the "new cell by the gate of blessed Paul" ( cella nova juxta portam beati Pauli ). Gregory the Great had a mosaic portrait of his parents executed at the monastery of Saint Andrew; it is minutely described by Johannes Diaconus ( P.L., LXXV, 229–30). [3] Silvia was portrayed sitting with the face, in which the wrinkles of age could not hide the beauty; the eyes were large and blue, and the expression was gracious and animated. [2]

The veneration of Silvia is of early date. [2] She was honoured by the Romans as a type of a Christian widow. [3]

Silvia had built a chapel in her house. In 645, the monks from the monastery of Mar Saba ( Palestine ) settled in this house, and devoted it to the celebration of Saint Sabas . In the 9th century an oratory was erected over her former dwelling, near the Basilica of San Saba .

Pope Clement VIII (1592–1605) inserted her name under 3 November in the Roman Martyrology. She is invoked by pregnant women for a safe delivery. [4]

Two of her relatives, sisters-in-law Trasilla and Emiliana , are also venerated as saints, as well as her other sister-in-law Gordiana, and her husband Gordianus.

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Saint Silvia". Catholic Encyclopedia . New York: Robert Appleton Company.

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Saint Sylvia was the mother of Saint Gregory the Great, Pope and Doctor of the Universal Church. She was one of the most beautiful widows Rome has ever known. Saint Gregory’s sanctity and intellectual brilliance are in no small way due to this precious mother. A chapel has been built on the Caelian Hill in Rome on the spot where her house was when she lived there.
Saint Gregory with his parents, Saints Gordian and Sylvia ( source )
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St. Silvia of Rome was a sister to St. Tarsilla. She was married to Gordianus, a Roman regionarius where they had two sons, one who was Pope Saint Gregory the Great. After the death of her husband, she devoted herself to religious life living in a cell.

St. Silvia of Rome Biography, Feast Day, Date of Birth, Country of Birth, Profession, Place of Work, Date of Death, Place of Death, Beatification Date, Canonization Date

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