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Seven Sleepers


 

In Christian mythology, the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus is a folktale concerning a number of fictional people who for a time were venerated as saints.

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Christian mythology - Ephesus - Folktale - Fictional - Saint

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The basic outline of the tale appears in Gregory of Tours, and in Paul the Deacon's History of the Lombards,The best known version of the story appears in Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend.

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Gregory of Tours - Paul the Deacon - Lombards - Jacobus de Voragine - Golden Legend

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