Confessor · 3rd century
Seven Youths of Ephesus
Also known as the Seven Sleepers · Maximilian · Iamblicus · Martinian · John · Dionysius · Constantine · Antoninus
Seven young Christians of Ephesus who, hiding in a cave from the persecution of Decius, fell asleep and were sealed in; after nearly two hundred years they awoke, a living witness to the resurrection of the dead, and then reposed again in the Lord.
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Notes
Named group commemorated as one; also commemorated Oct 22. Also commemorated Oct 22.
Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints