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Travel Ephesus |
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Around Ephesus |
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Cave of the Seven Sleepers
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 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.
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Ephesus Yesterday & Today |
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