According to the legend, St. Aurelia was a princess who became a hermitess.  She later accompanied Saint Ursula and the eleven thousand virgins from Roman Britain to Cologne, where they were favourably received by Aquilin, bishop of the place.  From Cologne they traveled to Basel.  From Basel the travelers descended the Rhine to Strasbourg where St Aurelia succumbed to a violent fever, dying after a few days in 1027.  Three virgins were left to care for her.  Her three companions lived many years in the same place and were buried there.  The church of Sainte Aurélie in Strasbourg was supposed to have been built over the crypt in which the tomb of Saint Aurelia and her three companions was situated.  Some centuries later their tomb was opened and their bodies were found completely intact, marked with titles bearing their names.  This legend is reproduced in the current breviary of the Diocese of Strasbourg.

Her feast day is October 15th.