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 was born at Campsada in Phrygia (now Turkey),[2] and as a boy took care of geese.

[7][8] The celebrations are a fertility rite intended to encourage the growth of the vines, and it is also thought that human infertility can be cured on this day.

[4] In Russian icons of the saint, he is often shown holding a falcon,[4] a reference to a miracle attributed to his intercessions.

In about 1005, the monk Theodoric of Fleury wrote, on the basis of earlier written legends, an account of Tryphon in which Respicius appears as his companion.

One tradition held that Nympha (Ninfa)[13] was a virgin martyr from Palermo who was put to death for the faith at the beginning of the fourth century.

According to other versions of the legend, when the Vandals invaded Sicily, she fled from Palermo to the Italian mainland and died in the sixth century at Savona.