Tryphaena

Saint Tryphaena was a nun of the city of Cyzicus in Asia Minor, commemorated together with Saint Matrona.

From their youth they longed for Christ and chose the monastic life. They reached such a degree of struggle and abstinence that the joints of their bones could be seen. They had no cell, but, clothed in a small garment, prayed unceasingly to God by night and day, and rested only a little on the ground. Shortly before their end, which they foresaw, they made the sign of the Cross and gave their souls into God's hands. After their repose many miracles took place.

The synaxaria usually record only the commemoration of Tryphaena of Cyzicus, but codex 170 of the Lavra mentions both. They are commemorated on 11 April, according to the calendar of the Church of Greece (new style).