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ST. TRYPHONIA 273 TuoFiNA, Trophima, Tbophona, Teopho- NiA, Tbyphena, Febbonia (5), etc., etc.), patron of Minori, in the diocese of Amalfi. The people of Minori, headed by their bishop, petitioned the Pope that to avoid confusion this saint might be called Trofimena only, and that all the other forms of her name should be dis- used : this was decreed by the Congre- gation of Bites, Jan. 21, 1673. It is certain that the saint has been worshipped for a very long time, although no one knows who she was or when she lived. Her grave was discovered early in the ninth century, by a poor woman who was washing clothes in the river. She laid the clothes on a little mound at the edge of the river and beat them very hard, and while doing so, her arms withered and let fall her work. She was much alarmed and, lest her tongue should be paralysed also, she would only tell the story in the presence of many priests. The relics of St. Trofimena were found buried in the mound. Their miraculous powers at once became evi- dent, and they were translated by the bishop into the cathedral of Amalfi, about 839. AA,SS. Suardo, prince of Salerno, attacked Amalfi in the hope of obtaining the saint's body ; he carried off a great number of the inhabitants, but after a few years they burnt his capital, returned to Amalfi, and threw off his yoke. Hare, Cities of Southern Italy. St. Trogacia, Tbiaisb. St. Trojecia, Triaise. St. Trojeria, Tbiaisb. St. Trollhaena, Triduana. St. Trophima (l), Trofimena or Tbyphena (4). St. Trophima (2), July 13, M. at Alexandria. AA.Sis. St. Trophina, Tbiphona, also Tbopi- MKNA. SS. Trophonia (i) and Antonia (4), June 4, W. MM. commemorated by Greven, but unknown to the Bollan- dists. St. Trophonia (2), Tbofimena. St. Truthgeba or Tbuthoith, Lioba. St. Tiynnihid, wife of St. Htutus, knight, abbot in Brittany when King Arthur was reigning in Britain. Sanc- torale Catholicum. VOL. n. SS. Tryphena (i) ^^^ Tryphosa, Nov. 10. St. Paul in his epistle to the Bomans zvi. 12, says, *' Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa who labour in the Lord." They were probably deaconesses of the Church of Rome. Legend says they were converted at Iconium by SS. Paid and Thecla (1). Tryphena was the name of the Queen in the Acts of Paul and Thecla, from which circumstance the two saints at Home may be confused with inhabitants of Iconium. E,M, Compare with Tbyphena (2). St. Tryphena (2), the queen in the legend of St. Thecla (1), was wife of Cotys, king of Thrace, who died before a.d. 19. She was bom b.g. 8 or earlier, and had three sons, kings respectively of Thrace, Pontus and Armenia Minor. Bamsay, Church in the Boman Empire, St. Tryphena (3), Jan. 31, M. of Cyzicns. Invoked to procure milk. Eepresented with a bull. Daughter of Anastasins, a patrician who was a heathen, and Socratia, a Christian. At a heathen feast Tryphena courted martyrdom by rushing in among the people, spitting on the articles sacred to the idols and abusing the gods and their worshippers. She was put in an oven, then on the equuleus, then hung up at a great height and let fall on nails which were fixed in the ground with their points upwards. Finally she was thrown to a bull that gored her to death. Where her blood fell on the ground a fountain sprang up, the water of which had healing properties. B.M. AA.SS. Menohgy of Basil. Menzel. St. Tryphena (4), Tbifima, Tbophima (1), etc., one of the martyrs of Lyons who died in prison. (See Blandina.) St. Tiyphonia or Cephinia, Oct. 18, 28, wife of Decius, legend says the Emperor Decius, but this is uncertain. Decius having put to death SS. Sixtus and Lawrence, was seized with horrible torments and kept calling on the martyrs to cease their vengeance for a few minutes and give him a respite from his suffer- ings. Tryphonia set at liberty as many Christian captives as she could, and hastened with her daughter St. Ctbilla (1), to the priest Si Justin, and begged