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CAVE
OF THE SEVEN SLEEPERS
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CAVE OF THE SEVEN SLEEPERS
Ephesus Artemision Church of
St.John Isabey Mosque Plan of Ephesus Cave
of the Seven Sleepers State Agora -
Aqueduct of Sextilius Pollio Odeion
(Bouleuterion) - Baths of Varius
Prytaneion (Municipal Hall) Basilica -
Fountain of Laecanius Bassus Fountain of
Pollio Temple of Domitian Memmius Monument
Victory Arch with Reliefs of Hercules
Street of the Curretes Fountain of Trajan
Temple of Hadrian Round Tower - Baths of
Scholastikia Brothel Terrace Houses Celsus
Library Agora Gate of Mazaeus and
Mithridates at the agora Marble way
Arcadian Street - Ephesus Theatre Stadium
- Harbour Baths Church of the Virgin Mary
Vedius Gymnasium Harbour Gymnasium and
Verulanus Baths House of the Virgin Mary
Ephesus Museum A road leading past the
Vedius Gymnasium directs eastwards towards
the Cave of the Seven Sleepers. According
to legend, seven young Christians living
in the reign of the emperor Decius (around
250 AD.) refused to offer the required
sacrifices at the emperor's shrine, and
escaped from the town to hide in this
cave. Some time later they are said to
have fallen asleep, and slept for so long
that when they woke up and went out for
food, they found that the city had
completely changed, and along with it the
emperor's rule. With some surprise they
realise that they have been asleep for 200
years, and that Christianity has spread
throughout Ephesus.
The
new emperor, Theodosius, hearing of their
tale, declared it a miracle that they had
been raised from the dead, and their fame
spread.
On their death, the seven sleepers are
said to have been buried here in the same
cave with funerary rites, and a church
erected over the cave.
Excavations on the site revealed, in the
walls and tombs of the 5-6th century
church, a number of graves belonging to
devotees to the seven sleepers, among them
one thought to belong to St. Madeleine.
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