The Holy Martyr Tryphon was born in one of the regions of Asia Minor, Phrygia, near the city of Apamea in the village of Campsada. From a young age, the Lord gave him the power to cast out demons and heal various diseases. One day, the inhabitants of his native village were saved from starvation by him: Saint Trypho, by the power of his prayer, forced the harmful insects that destroyed the cereals and devastated the fields to leave. Saint Tryphon was especially famous for exorcising the demon from the daughter of the Roman Emperor Gordian (238-244).
Helping all the suffering, he demanded only one payment – faith in Jesus Christ, through whose grace he healed them.
When Emperor Decius (249-251), a cruel persecutor of Christians, ascended the royal throne, the eparch Aquilinus was informed that Saint Trypho boldly preaches faith in Christ and leads many to Baptism. The saint was captured and brought in for interrogation, during which he fearlessly confessed his faith. He was subjected to cruel tortures, beaten with sticks, his body was tortured with iron hooks, wounds were burned with fire, and they drove iron nails into his legs around the city. Saint Tryphon bravely endured all the tortures without uttering a single moan.
Finally, he was condemned to be beheaded by the sword. Before his execution, the holy martyr prayed, thanking God, who had strengthened him in his sufferings, and asked the Lord for special grace for those who would invoke his name for help. Before the soldiers raised their sword over the head of the holy martyr, he surrendered his soul into the hands of God. This event took place in the city of Nicaea in the year 250.
Christians wrapped the holy body of the martyr in clean swaddling cloths and wanted to bury him in the city of Nicaea, where he suffered, but Saint Trypho in a vision ordered his body to be transferred to his homeland in the village of Kampsada. This was done.
Subsequently, the relics of Saint Tryphon were transferred to Constantinople, and then to Rome. The holy martyr enjoys great veneration in the Russian Orthodox Church.
There is a legend that during the reign of Tsar John the Terrible, a gyrfalcon, beloved by the tsar, flew away during the royal hunt. The tsar ordered the falconer Trifon Patrikeev to find the bird that had flown away. Sokolnik Trifon toured the surrounding forests, but without success. On the third day, tired of the long search, he stopped near Moscow, at a place now called Marina Grove, and lay down to rest exhausted, having prayed fervently to his patron saint, the martyr Tryphon, asking him for help. In a dream, he saw a young man on a white horse holding a royal gyrfalcon, and this young man said: "Take the missing bird, go with God to the king and don't worry about anything." When the falconer woke up, he actually saw a gyrfalcon nearby in a pine tree. He immediately took him to the tsar and told him about the miraculous help he had received from the holy Martyr Tryphon. After some time, on the place where the saint's appearance took place, the sokolnik Trifon Patrikeev built a chapel, and then a church in the name of the holy martyr Trifon.
They especially pray to the Martyr Tryphon for healing from bodily ailments, in a painful state, in cases of fruit spoilage, during famine.