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Seven Brethren
Seven Brethren n. (also with lower-case initials) now rare (with the) the seven sons of St Felicitas, martyred along with their mother in Rome c.165, whose feast day is 10 July; also called Seven Holy Brothers.The Seven Brethren of this legend are often associated with the seven Maccabean brothers put to death with their mother c.168 b.c. by Antiochus IV of the Seleucid Empire (see 2 Maccabees 7).Quot. OE shows equivalent use of seven i-brotheren (cf. i-brotheren n.).
Quot. a1475 shows a variant with the numeral as postmodifier (compare sense A. 1a).
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Seven Brethrena1475
OE Old Eng. Martyrol. (Julius) 10 July (2013) 134 On ðone teogeþan dæg þæs monðes bið seofon gebroðra ðrowung.., Hi wæron ðære mæran wudewan suna sancta Felicitan.]
a1475 (?1445) J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1911) i. 370 I pray ȝou þen, Brethren seuyn, That I may be one of Benet ys heyre.
1625 in J. M. Thomson Registrum Magni Sigilli Scotorum (1894) VIII. 332/1 Sevin-brethrenis-day.
1806 Rom. Missal 622 Feasts of July... X. X. The Seven Brethren, MM. and SS. Rufina, and Secunda, VV. MM.
1969 Brit. Mus. Q. 34 14 Relics of the Seven Brethren were at Benevento.
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