Born: Unknown, Italy
Died: Unknown
Country most active: Italy
Also known as: NA
The following is excerpted from A Cyclopædia of Female Biography, published 1857 by Groomsbridge and Sons and edited by Henry Gardiner Adams.
ÆMELIA was, according to Dionysius, and Valerius Maximus, a vestal virgin, who being condemned to die for her negligence in allowing the sacred fire, which it was her duty to watch and feed, to become extinguished, rekindled the embers miraculously by throwing her veil over them.