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The Seven Sleepers series by Gilbert Morris takes a modern approach to the story in which seven teenagers must be awakened to fight evil in a post-nuclear-apocalypse world. John Buchan refers to the Seven Sleepers in The Three Hostages in which Richard Hannay surmises that his wife Mary, who is a sound sleeper, is descended from one of the ...
It is claimed that this cave housed the Seven Sleepers, also known from Christian sources as the "Sleepers of Ephesus" and from the Qur’an as the "Companions of the Cave" (Arabic: اصحاب الكهف, romanized: aṣḥāb al kahf)—a group of young men who, according to Byzantine Christian and Islamic sources, fled the religious ...
In 1958, the Sisters of Charity built a museum to teach pilgrims about the life of Saint Bernadette, especially her sufferings. The museum highlights various key places in Saint Bernadette’s life: the village dungeon her family lived in, the Grotto of Massabielle, the Hospice of Lourdes, and the convent at Nevers.
The Worcester museum's window depicts the Messengers from Ephesus before Emperor Theodosius II (an Episode from the "Legend of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus") and was painted between 1200 and 1210.
The exact location of the Seven Sleepers' cave is not known, and there are many other contenders to the title, [1] including some in Turkey. [2] Next to the cave, there is a mosque commissioned by the Ottoman sultan Abdülaziz (reigned 1861–1876) and built in 1873. The mosque's tall minaret with three şerefes (balconies) were added later. [3 ...
Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, Passionary of Weissenau, Cod.Bodmer 127, c. 1170. Seven Sleepers' Day (German: Siebenschläfertag) on June 27 is a feast day commemorating the legend of the Seven Sleepers as well as one of the best-known bits of traditional weather lore (expressed as a proverb) remaining in German-speaking Europe.
The calligram's creator inscribed characters representing the story of the Seven Sleepers (the Ashab al-Kahf in Arabic), a group of seven men who were given refuge in a cave by God, onto the galleon; it has been posited that such an inscription on the work was intended to protect the ship from harm, just as God protected the seven sleepers. [1]
Archaeologists working near Luxor announced a bevy of new finds they believe could “reconstruct history” thanks to the wealth of artifacts they discovered in a mixture of rock-cut tombs ...