Name
Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, brothers who fell asleep during the persecution of Decius
Saint ID
S00287
Reported Death Not Before
250
Reported Death Not After
450
Gender
Male
Type of Saint
Martyrs, Children
| ID | Title | E00367 | Gregory of Tours writes the Glory of the Martyrs (Liber in Gloria Martyrum), in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 580/594. Overview entry. | E00499 | Gregory of Tours, in his Glory of the Martyrs (29), records the following things in Ephesus (western Asia Minor): the tomb of *Mary Magdalene (female follower of Jesus, S00286); the relics of the *Seven Sleepers (brothers who fell asleep during the persecution of Decius, S00287); and the image of Diana destroyed by *Paul (the Apostle, S00008). Written in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 580/594. | E00647 | Gregory of Tours, in his Glory of the Martyrs (94), tells the story of the *Seven Sleepers of Ephesus (S00287); brothers who fell asleep at Ephesus (western Asia Minor) during the persecution of Decius, awoke under Theodosius, and then renewed their miraculously sleep. Written in Latin in Tours (north-west Gaul), 580/594. | E01844 | Coptic fragment from the story of the *Seven Sleepers of Ephesus (brothers who fell asleep during the persecution of Decius, S00287), preserving the betrayal of their parents who give away their hiding place, as well as the names of two Christians who record their martyrdom; composed probably in the 5th/7th c., preserved in a manuscript of the 9th/11th c. | E02525 | Jacob of Serugh's Syriac Homily (memrā) on the Youths of Ephesus (the *Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, S00287) retells the story of the young men who fell asleep in a cave during the persecution of the emperor Decius and woke two-hundred years later. Written in northern Mesopotamia in the late 5th/early 6th c. | E03713 | The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 18 April *Petros (martyred bishop of Alexandria, S00247), *Christophoros and his companion martyrs, Aquilina and Kallinike (martyrs of Pamphylia, S00616), the *Seven Sleepers of Ephesus (brothers who fell asleep during the persecution of Decius, S00287). | E03820 | The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 2 August probably *Quintilianus and Dadas (martyrs of Durostorum, S00551), and *Seven Sleepers of Ephesus (brothers who fell asleep during the persecution of Decius, S00287) and the invention of the relics of *Stephen (the First-Martyr, S00030). | E03885 | The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 4 October *Arethas and the Martyrs of Najran (ob. 522/523, S01492); a martyr Zebedee, an unidentified figure; the *Seven Sleepers of Ephesus (brothers who fell asleep during the persecution of Decius, S00287); and *Romanos ('the Melodist', S01631). | E03941 | The Church Calendar of Ioane Zosime, compiled in Georgian in the 10th c., based however on 5th-7th c. prototypes from Palestine, commemorates on 29 November the *Seven Sleepers of Ephesus (brothers who fell asleep during the persecution of Decius, S00287), *Irenarchos (probably martyr of Sebasteia, S00623), *Elianos (martyr of Amman, S00889), *Kosmas and Damianos (brothers, physician martyrs of Syria, S00385), and the *Archangels (S00191), and *Theodoros (possibly the Chalcedonian Armenian bishop of Theodosiopolis, early 7th c., S01838). | E04864 | The 6th/7th c. recension of the Latin Martyrologium Hieronymianum, as transmitted in 8th c. manuscripts, records the feasts of a number of saints on 27 June. | E05364 | Gregory of Tours in his Latin translation of the Martyrdom of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus recounts the story of the *Seven Sleepers of Ephesus (brothers who fell asleep during the persecution of Decius; S00287). Translated in Tours (north-west Gaul) from a Greek or Syriac text, AD 573/587. | E07085 | The Greek Martyrdom of the *Seven Sleepers of Ephesus (brothers who fell asleep during the persecution of Decius, S00287). Skeleton entry | E07933 | Theodosius, in his On the Topography of the Holy Land, in a passage on Ephesus (western Asia Minor) notes the presence there of the *Seven Sleepers of Ephesus (S00287) and of *Timothy (the disciple of Paul the Apostle, S00466). Written in Latin, perhaps in Africa, 518/540. | E08010 | The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor (AM 5923) states that the *Seven Sleepers of Ephesus (S00287) awoke in the year 430/431. Chronicle compiled in the Byzantine Empire in the early 9th c., using extracts from earlier Greek texts. |
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