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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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
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]
Jan. 15—HARVEYS LAKE — The 2023 Grotto Pizza "Parade of Trees" raised $58,468 in charitable donations for local and regional organizations. This amount includes a $25,000 donation by the ...
M.O.V.P.E.R. is guided by a philosophy that is deeply rooted in the concept of “Good Fellowship” [10] [clarification needed] which, according to The Grotto, represents a “spirit of wholesome fun.” [11] A Grotto Fez design from the Las Vegas Grotto Sin-A-Tra, distinguishable with its black fez and red tassel.