- SEVEN SLEEPERS
- seven noble youths of Ephesus who, to escape the persecution of Decius, fled into a cave, where they fell asleep and woke up at the end of two centuries.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
SEVEN SLEEPERS
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