* Seven Sleepers Day or Siebenschläfertag ( Germany )

** Seven Sleepers of Ephesus ( Roman Martyrology )

In Flanders, there is St Godelieve ( 6 July ) and in Germany the Seven Sleepers ' Day ( 27 June ).

In Christian tradition there is the well-known story of " The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus ", recounting a group of early Christians who hid in a cave about 250 AD, to escape the persecution of Christians during the reign of the Roman emperor Decius, fell into a miraculous sleep and woke some 200 years later during the reign of Theodosius II, to discover that the city and the whole Empire had become Christian.

* 1205 in art-The Legend of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus stained glass done for Rouen Cathedral

The Aarne-Thompson classification system for folktale motifs classifies these stories as number 766, relating them to the tale of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus.

* Seven Sleepers

A 19th-century German votive painting of the Seven Sleepers.

The Seven Sleepers, commonly called the " Seven Sleepers of Ephesus ", refers to a group of Christian youths who hid inside a cave outside the city of Ephesus around 250 AD, to escape a persecution of Christians being conducted during the reign of the Roman emperor Decius.

The Roman Martyrology mentions the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus under the date of 27 July, as follows: " Commemoration of the seven Holy Sleepers of Ephesus, who, it is recounted, after undergoing martyrdom, rest in peace, awaiting the day of resurrection.

Decius orders the walling in of the Seven Sleepers.

The Cave of the Seven Sleepers, Ephesus, Turkey.

On the slopes of Mount Pion ( Mount Coelian ) near Ephesus ( near modern Selçuk in Turkey ), the " grotto " of the Seven Sleepers with ruins of the church built over it was excavated in 1927 – 28.

Inscriptions dedicated to the Seven Sleepers were found on the walls of the church and in the graves.

During the period of the Crusades, bones from the sepulchres near Ephesus, identified as relics of the Seven Sleepers, were transported to Marseille, France in a large stone coffin, which remained a trophy of the church of Saint Victoire, Marseille.

The Seven Sleepers were included in the Golden Legend compilation, the most popular book of the later Middle Ages, which fixed a precise date for their resurrection, 378 AD, in the reign of Theodosius.

In John Heywood's Play Called the Four PP ( 1530s ), the Pardoner, a Renaissance update of Chaucer's Pardoner, offers his companions the opportunity to kiss " a slipper / Of one of the Seven Sleepers ," but the relic is presented as absurdly as the Pardoner's other offerings, which include " the great-toe of the Trinity " and " a buttock-bone of Pentecost.

Little is heard of the Seven Sleepers during the Enlightenment, but the account revived with the coming of Romanticism.

The Golden Legend may have been the source for retellings of the Seven Sleepers in Thomas de Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, in a poem by Goethe, Washington Irving's " Rip van Winkle ", H. G.

Serbian writer Danilo Kiš retells the story of the Seven Sleepers in a short story, " The Legend of the Sleepers ", in his book The Encyclopedia of the Dead.

Seven of the eight scrolls originally contained the entire book of Daniel in the short form as it is in the Masoretic Text, however none have the long form as preserved in the Septuagint.

Some of the first British-sanctioned settlers to the island following the Seven Years ' War were Irish, although upon settlement, they merged with local French communities to form a culture rich in both music and tradition.

Seven congregations have so far decided to form the Continued Reformed Churches in the Netherlands.

In Judaism, the Seven Laws of Noah ( Sheva mitzvot B ' nei Noach ) form the major part of the Noachide Laws, or Noahide Code.

From 1837-1841, the Grimm Brothers joined five of their colleague professors at the University of Göttingen to form a group known as the Göttinger Sieben ( The Göttingen Seven ).

The Seven Hills of Rome () east of the river Tiber form the geographical heart of Rome, within the walls of the ancient city.

In AD 590, a little over two centuries after Evagrius wrote his list, Pope Gregory I revised this list to form the more common Seven Deadly Sins, by folding ( sorrow / despair / despondency ) into acedia, vainglory into pride, and adding envy.

Tapiola did not form part of any wider plan for Finland ’ s development other than von Hertzen ’ s Seven Towns Plan, a response to urban sprawl in Helsinki.

Seven qualities distinguish the picaresque novel or narrative form.

Cyrus Scofield, in his Notes on the Bible, following dispensationalist thought, suggests that the Seven Letters in Revelation foretell the various eras of Christian history, and that " Nicolaitans " " refers to the earliest form of the notion of a priestly order, or ' clergy ,' which later divided an equal brotherhood into ' priests ' and ' laity.

The cemetery in its original form – the northwestern wooded area – opened in 1839, as part of a plan to provide seven large, modern cemeteries, known as the " Magnificent Seven ", around the outside of London.

Space Ship Earthling number Seven ultimately succeeds, and the consequences of their success form the basis of the plot for the novels which follow.

The Paul Gallico short story from which Lili was adapted was published in expanded form in 1954 as Love of Seven Dolls, a 125-page novella.

* Seven colleges form the first Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association ( ILA ), which was later replaced by the Intercollegiate Lacrosse League in 1905 ( which was renamed the U. S. Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association in 1929 ).

This visit resulted in the publication in The Spectator of seven weekly letters, collected in book form at the end of 1847 ( see a letter to de Tocqueville in Mrs Grote's reprint of the Seven Letters, 1876 ).

The Seven Years War was going badly for Britain under the leadership of the Duke of Newcastle and when he resigned in October 1756, George II eventually asked Devonshire to form an administration.

In 1919, they decided to make themselves into a group devoted to a distinct Canadian form of art which did not exist yet, and began to call themselves the Group of Seven.

The Lotus Seven was offered in kit form to allow buyers to avoid new car tax in the UK.

Subsequently Caterham continued offering cars in ' complete knock down ' ( CKD ) kit form as the tradition of hand building your own Seven was well established amongst enthusiasts.

In the ' 60s, the original Lotus Seven was sold only in kit form in both the UK and the US, in order to evade the very high taxes on complete new cars that were not assessed on automobile parts.

Seven years later, Piccolo acts as a trainer to Goten, Goku's second son, and Trunks, Vegeta's son, and their fused form Gotenks.

In its original form, The Annual Register comprised a long historical essay on the “ History of the Present War ” ( the Seven Years ' War 1756 – 63 ), a Chronology, which gave an account of interesting and noteworthy events in Britain over the previous year, and a collection of “ State Papers ”, a miscellany of primary source material which included official documents, speeches, letters and accounts.

The Deposition of Christ and the Lamentation or Pietà form the 13th of the Stations of the Cross, as well as one of the Seven Sorrows of the Virgin.

As of 2010, the surviving companies from the Seven Sisters are BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell, which form four members of the " supermajors " group.