Episode 08: The Seven Sleepers

January 10, 2023

Maximanius, Malchus, Martinianus, Dionysius, Johannes, Seraphion, and Constantine – seven holy martyrs from the ancient city of Ephesus – were enclosed in a cave by Roman Emperor Decius. Legend holds that, hundreds of years later, the cave was opened and the seven men awoke as if they had only slept one night.

sources for this episode:

Aelfric's Lives of the Saints, translated by Reverend Walter W. Skeat. Published by N. Turner & Co., London, 1881.

• Catholic Online ( https://www.catholic.org/saints/saint.php?saint_id=754 )

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Theme music is Mariam Matrem Virginem, played by a forest beggar.

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