Holy Seven Youths of Ephesus (Seven Sleepers): Maximilian, Jamblichus, Martinian, John, Dionysius, Exacustodianus (Constantine) and Antoninus

The Seven Youths of Ephesus are known in the West as the Seven Sleepers. Their story, told in Greek, Syriac and Latin, says that under Emperor Decius, c. 250, seven young Christians of Ephesus hid in a cave on Mount Ochlon, where they fell asleep, and the emperor had the entrance walled up. Nearly two centuries later, under Theodosius the Younger, the stones were removed; Iamblichus went into the city to buy bread with old coins and was arrested, and the bishop found the youths alive in the cave. According to the legend they told their story, then died again. The story was loved throughout the Christian East and also appears in the Qur'an.