Tryphon, Respicius, and Nympha

Saint Tryphon
Serbian Orthodox icon of St. Tryphon of Campsada.
Great martyr, Holy unmercenary
BornCampsada, Phrygia
(now Turkey)
Died250 AD
Nicaea
(modern-day Iznik, Bursa, Turkey)
Venerated inRoman Catholic Church; Eastern Orthodox Church
Major shrineCathedral of Saint Tryphon in Kotor
Feast1 February [O.S. 14 February] in Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox calendars
10 November (formerly in the Roman Catholic Church);
Attributesfalcon
Patronagegardeners and winegrowers; Kotor, Montenegro; Moscow, Russia; invoked against rodents and locusts

Saint Tryphon of Campsada (Greek: Τρύφων; also spelled Trypho, Trifon, Triphon) was a 3rd-century Christian saint. He is venerated by the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches as a great martyr and holy unmercenary.

Saint Tryphon was formerly celebrated jointly with Saints Respicius and Nympha on 10 November in the liturgical calendar of the Latin Church from the eleventh century until the twentieth,[1] and remains on the liturgical calendar of the extraordinary form of the Roman rite. Saint Tryphon continues to be celebrated (separately) on 1 February [O.S. 14 February] on both the Orthodox liturgical calendar and the Roman Calendar of Saints.

  1. ^ Calendarium Romanum (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 1969), p. 145