The Glagolitic alphabet is believed to have been created by Saints Cyril and Methodius, while the Cyrillic alphabet was invented by the Bulgarian scholar Clement of Ohrid, who was their disciple.

* Prehistoric period – occurred between the Slavonic migration to eastern Balkans and the mission of Saints Cyril and Methodius to Great Moravia in the 860s.

It was used by Saints Cyril and Methodius and their disciples to translate the Bible and other liturgical literature from Greek into Slavic.

In 886 AD, the Bulgarian Empire introduced the Glagolitic alphabet which was devised by the Saints Cyril and Methodius in the 850s.

* Saint Cyril the Philosopher ( link to Saints Cyril and Methodius ), 9th century Greek missionary, co-invented the Slavic alphabet, translated the Bible into Old Church Slavonic

** Cyril and Methodius, patron saints of Europe ( Roman Catholic Church )

The creation of the characters is popularly attributed to Saints Cyril and Methodius, who may have created them in order to facilitate the introduction of Christianity.

The two monks later canonized as Saints Cyril and Methodius, the brothers from Thessaloniki, were sent to Great Moravia in 862 by the Byzantine emperor at the request of Knyaz ( Duke ) Rastislav, who wanted to weaken the dependence of his country on East Frankish priests.

The tradition that the alphabet was designed by Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius has not been universally accepted.

* 863: Saints Cyril and Methodius arrive in Great Moravia.

* Legends of Saints Cyril and Methodius

* Saints Cyril and Methodius Day ( Czech Republic, Slovakia )

Cyril and Methodius School in 1979 and St. John the Baptist Diocesan High School in 1983.

Saints Cyril and Methodius, Byzantine Greeks born in Thessaloniki, were the creators of the first Slavic Glagolitic alphabet and Old Church Slavonic language.

In conjunction with another disciple of Saints Cyril and Methodius, Saint Naum, he created a flourishing Bulgarian cultural center around Ohrid, where over 3, 000 pupils were taught in the Glagolitic and Cyrillic script in what is now called Ohrid Literary School.

** Cyril and Methodius ( Eastern Orthodox Church, Anglican Communion )

* Saints Cyril and Methodius Day ( Eastern Orthodox Church ) and its related observance:

** Saints Cyril and Methodius, Slavonic Enlighteners ' Day ( Republic of Macedonia )

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It could be that the reason for the Czech preference of Mieszko was the existence in Bohemia of a mission which followed the precepts of the Byzantine Greek brothers and later saints Cyril and Methodius, who developed and performed the liturgy in the Slavic rite, more readily understood by Mieszko and his subjects.

Cyril and Methodius Cathedral, an Orthodox church in Prague.

Cyril and Methodius Cathedral ( d. 1751 )

Saints Cyril and Methodius (, Old Church Slavonic: ) were Byzantine Greek brothers born in Thessaloniki in the 9th century.

The two brothers were born in Thessaloniki – Cyril in 827 – 828 and Methodius in 815 – 820.

Cross Procession in Khanty-Mansiysk on Saints Cyril and Methodius Day in May 2006

Sts Cyril and Methodius ' feast day is currently celebrated on 14 February in the Roman Catholic Church ( to coincide with the date of St Cyril's death ); on 11 May in the Eastern Orthodox Church ( though note that for Eastern Orthodox Churches still on the Julian Calendar or ' old calendar ' this is 24 May according to the Gregorian calendar ); and on 7 July according to the old sanctoral calendar that existed before the revisions of the Second Vatican Council.

The first recorded secular celebration of the Saints Cyril and Methodius Day as the " Day of the Bulgarian script ", as it is traditionally accepted by Bulgarian history, was held in the town of Plovdiv on 11 May 1851, when a local Bulgarian school was named " Saints Cyril and Methodius ", both acts on the initiative of the prominent Bulgarian educator Nayden Gerov, although an Armenian traveller mentioned his visit at the " celebration of the Bulgarian script " in the town of Shumen on 22 May 1803.

* In the Republic of Macedonia, it is celebrated on 24 May and is known as the " Saints Cyril and Methodius, Slavonic Enlighteners ' Day " (.

The saints ' feast day is celebrated by the Eastern Orthodox Church on 11 May and by the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion on 14 February as " Saints Cyril and Methodius Day ".

* Lesser Feasts and Commemorations on the Lutheran liturgical calendar include Anthony of Egypt on January 17, Henry, Bishop of Uppsala, martyr Henry of Uppsala on January 19, Timothy, Titus and Silas, missionaries St Timothy, St Titus and St Silas Day on January 26, Ansgar, Bishop of Hamburg, missionary to Denmark and Sweden St Ansgar on February 3, Cyril, monk and Methodius, bishop, missionaries to the Slavs St Cyril and St Methodius on February 14, Gregory the Great on March 12, St Patrick on March 17, Olavus Petri, priest and Laurentius Petri, Bishop of Uppsala, on April 19, St Anselm on April 21, Catherine of Siena on April 29, St Athanasius on May 2, St Monica on May 4, Eric IX of Sweden on May 18, St Boniface on June 5, Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa and Gregory of Nazianzus on June 14, Benedict of Nursia on July 11, Birgitta of Sweden on July 23, St Anne, Mother of Mary on July 26, St Dominic on August 8, Augustine of Hippo on August 28, St Cyprian on September 16, Teresa of Avila on October 15, Martin de Porres on November 3, Martin of Tours on November 11, Elizabeth of Hungary on November 17, St Lucy on December 13.

Rick Wakeman was born on 18 May 1949 in the west London suburb of Northolt to Cyril Frank and Mildred Helen Wakeman.

: May 1, 1945-July 4, 1945 Maj. Gen. Bernard Cyril Freyberg ( New Zealand ) < nowiki >*</ nowiki >

Formation No. 3 was a mobile reserve consisting of aircraft piloted by Flight Sergeant Cyril Anderson, Flt Sgt Bill Townsend, Flt Sgt Ken Brown ( RCAF ), P / O Warner Ottley and P / O Lewis Burpee ( RCAF ), taking off two hours later on 17 May, either to bomb the main dams or to attack three smaller secondary target dams: the Lister, the Ennepe and the Diemel.

* May – June 1916: Captain Bernard Cyril Freyberg, DSO

Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria also called Kyrillos VI, born Azer Youssef Atta ( 2 August 1902 – 9 March 1971 ), was the Pope and Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria ( 10 May 1959-9 March 1971 ).

Cyril Svoboda became the party chairman on 30 May 2009.

Cyril Lionel Robert James ( 4 January 1901 – 19 May 1989 ), who sometimes wrote under the pen-name J. R. Johnson, was an Afro-Trinidadian historian, journalist, socialist theorist and essayist.

Cyril Holland ( born Cyril Wilde, 5 June 1885 – 9 May 1915 ) was the first son of Oscar Wilde and Constance Lloyd and brother to Vyvyan Holland.

Alfred Cyril Ewing ( Leicester, 11 May 1899-Manchester, 14 May 1973 ) was a British philosopher and a sympathetic critic of Idealism.

Waugh attended Hertford College ( 1922 – 24 ), and so, was in no sense, Bowra's pupil ; indeed they scarcely knew one another at that time, whereas Cyril Connolly, Henry Green and Anthony Powell knew Bowra quite well when they were undergraduates.

Clyde Cyril Best MBE ( born 24 February 1951 in Somerset ) is a Bermudian former football player who most notably played as a striker for West Ham United, and was one of the first black players in British football.

Professor Cyril Toumanoff gives 1070 and 24 January 1125 as the dates for David.

After their baptism they were forced to use Roman and Greek letters in the transcription of their Slavic words but these were not suitable ... At last, God, in his love for mankind, sent them St. Constantine the Philosopher, called Cyril, a learned and upright man, who composed for them thirty-eight letters, some ( 24 of them ) similar to the Greek, but some ( 14 of them ) different, suitable to express Slavic sounds.

Cyril Francis Maude ( 24 April 1862 — 20 February 1951 ) was an English actor-manager.

On 24 July 2006 the medals were auctioned with the VC fetching a record A $ 1. 2 million, surpassing the previous record price for the VC of Norman Cyril Jackson.

* Cyril Elgood, Safavid Medical Practice, or The Practice of Medicine, Surgery and Gynaecology n Persia between 1500 AD and 1750 AD ( London: Luzac, 1970 ), pp. 21 – 24.

Sir Cyril James Anderton CBE ( born May 24, 1932 ) is a retired British police officer who served as Chief Constable of Greater Manchester from 1976 to 1991.

* Bernard Cyril Studd b. 24 Aug 1892, d. 30 Mar 1962