Seven Sleepers
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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
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).
Decius
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Gaius Messius Quintus Trajanus Decius, known as Trajan Decius or simply Decius, was Roman emperor from 249 to 251.
Seven Sleepers
…which fixed a precise date for their resurrection, AD 478, in the reign of Theodosius. The story says that during the persecutions by the Roman emperor Decius, around AD 250, seven young men were accused of following Christianity. They were given time to recant their faith but refused to bow to Roman idols…
Bust, Glyptothek, Munich
Antoninianus of Trajan Decius. Inscription: IMP. C. M. Q. TRAIANVS DECIVS AVG.
A marble statue of Emperor Decius dressed as Hercules discovered on 25 January 2023 during sewer repair works in Rome.
Bronze head of Decius from the former Colonia Ulpia Traiana Sarmizegetusa. National History Museum of Romania, Bucharest.