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)
