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Ss. Trypho, Respicius and Nympha
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Ss. Trypho, Respicius and Nympha
Martyrs, and Nympha, Virgin
Trypho and Respicius are remembered as martyrs in Bithynia. Nympha, a virgin who died in peace, is commemorated with them because their relics were kept together at Rome.
The reading
ⓘ Butler source
Alban Butler, The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Volume XI (November), Thomas Richardson and Son, Derby, for the Catholic Book Society, 1846; November 10, “Ss Trypho and Respicius, Martyrs, and Nympha, Virgin,” pp. 229-231.
Trypho and Respicius were Christians from Bithynia who were brought before the governor at Nicaea during persecution. Butler follows the martyr acts in describing their refusal to offer pagan sacrifice. Promises of honour and repeated suffering did not move them from their confession of Christ.
The account ends with their beheading. Butler distinguishes the acts he follows from another version he rejects. The detailed dialogue and torments belong to that older narrative; this condensed reading preserves the common confession of the two martyrs without treating every later account as equally reliable.
Nympha was a virgin from Palermo who came to Italy and died in peace at Suana in Tuscany. Butler explains that the Roman Martyrology joins her remembrance to the two martyrs because their bodies were kept together at Rome. She is not described as having been executed with them. The November 10 commemoration is also distinct from the Greek observance of Trypho on February 1.
Historical note
An original Novena Regina reading adapted and summarized from the cited pre-1962 sources. This is not a transcription of Butler’s words.
Butler identifies Nympha as a virgin who died in peace, rather than a companion in the same execution. It preserves the distinction between the November 10 Latin commemoration and the Greek February 1 observance.
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