Most Syriac accounts have eight, including a nameless watcher which God sets over the sleepers. The Jews and the Christians of Najran believed in only three brothers the East Syriac, five. Number, duration and names Įarly versions do not all agree on or even specify the number of sleepers. Syriac Orthodox calendars gives various dates: 21 April, 2 August, 13 August, 23 October and 24 October. The ninth-century Irish calendar Félire Óengusso commemorates the Seven Sleepers on 7 August. The Byzantine calendar commemorates them with feasts on 4 August and 22 October. The Roman Martyrology mentions the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus under the date of 27 July (June according to Vatican II calendar). In the 13th century, the poet Chardri composed an Old French version. These include 104 Latin manuscripts, 40 Greek, 33 Arabic, 17 Syriac, six Ethiopic, five Coptic, two Armenian, one Middle Irish, and one Old English. Īccounts are found in at least nine medieval languages and preserved in over 200 manuscripts, mainly dating to between the 9th and 13th centuries. The best-known Western version of the story appears in Jacobus de Voragine's Golden Legend (1259–1266). An outline of this tale appears in the writings of Gregory of Tours (538–594) and in History of the Lombards of Paul the Deacon (720–799). 450–521), which is itself derived from an earlier Greek source, now lost. The earliest version of this story comes from the Syriac bishop Jacob of Serugh ( c. It was also translated into Persian, Kyrgyz, and Tatar. Another version of the story appears in the Quran ( 18:9–26).

In the Islamic and Christian traditions, the Seven Sleepers ( Greek: επτά κοιμώμενοι, romanized: hepta koimōmenoi, Latin: Septem dormientes), otherwise known as the Sleepers of Ephesus and Companions of the Cave, is a medieval legend about a group of youths who hid inside a cave outside the city of Ephesus (modern-day Selçuk, Turkey) around AD 250 to escape one of the Roman persecutions of Christians and emerged some 300 years later. Decius orders the walling in of the Seven sleepers From a 14th-century manuscript.

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