August 3 - Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar - August 5
The Holy Seven Youths ("Seven Sleepers:) of Ephesus.
Martyr Eudoxia (Ia) of Persia (Menologion of Basil II).
Saint Kosmas Aitolos, New Hieromartyr and Equal-to-the-Apostles.
The former Church of the Pantokrator (today Zeyrek Mosque).
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The Seven Sleepers, also known in Christianity as the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, and in Islam as Aṣḥāb al-Kahf, is a late antique Christian legend, and a Qur'anic Islamic story. It speaks about a grou
August 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
…For August 4, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on July 22. The Holy Seven Youths ("Seven Sleepers") of Ephesus: Maximilian, Jamblicus, Martinian, John, Dionysius, Exacustodian (Constantine), and Antoninus (250 and ca. 446…
Illustration from the Menologion of Basil II
Decius orders the walling in of the Seven sleepers From a 14th-century manuscript.
The Seven Sleepers in the Golden Legend (1497)
A 19th century German votive painting of the Seven Sleepers. The writing says Bittet für uns Ihr hl. sieben Schläfer (Pray for us, Holy Seven Sleepers).