Tryphena and Tryphosa are

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women briefly mentioned by name in the Bible in

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:12, in which St. Paul writes: "Greet those workers in the Lord, Tryphaena and Tryphosa." The '' Roman Martyrology'' (up through 1960) commemorated them on November 10, saying: "At

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in Lycaonia as the heavenly birth ofthe holy women Tryphenna and Tryphosa, who made much progress in Christian perfection through the preaching of blessed Paul and the example of Thecla."

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