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Seven Sleepers

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(Myth & Legend / European Myth & Legend) seven Christian youths from Ephesus who were walled up in a cave by the Emperor Decius in 250 ad and, according to legend, slept for 187 years

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Seven Sleepers (redirected from The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus)

Seven Sleepers
(redirected from The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus)