February 14 is celebrated as St. Tryphon, Tryphonday, Trivul and Triva
Saint Tryphon was born in a very poor family in the Phrygian village Kampsadi, near the city of Apamea. Saint Tryphon had showed the ability to heal people and animals since childhood. As a poor farmer he kept geese and with his healing powers he cured many patients, among everyone he cured Gordius, daughter of the Emperor Gordian the Third.
Saint Tryphon is celebrated in all wine-growing regions, because this saint is considered the patron of vineyards, fields and crops in general. On this day people solemnly enter vineyards and start pruning vines. In Vojvodina he is considered as a geese saint.
The most beautiful legend about him is that he grew watermelons he had to give away to passersby, punished for killing 99 people, and he will serve his sentence when a willow stump flourish. When one day, a passerby passes by and do not take a watermelon in a hurry, raging Tryphon would throw a watermelon and kill a hundredth person. Despite this, the stump flourished. The passerby that was in hurry, hurried because he wanted to flirt with a girl, and that is a sin above all sins.
From this legend begins a belief that Saint Tryphon is a protector of love and girls, while catholics celebrate St. Valentine’s day as their day of love.
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