Traces of this insistence are to be met with in the Tractatus ad Theopompum, concerning the pasibility and impassibility of God ; this work seems to belong to Gregory, though in its general arrangement it reminds us of Methodius.

Methodius, who seems to have been in Svatopluk's train at Kaumberg, died in 885.

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.

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 scriptorium may have played a key role in the development of Cyrillic script by Bulgarian scholars under the guidance of one of Saints Cyril and Methodius ' disciples.

Nazarenko finds it more probable that the list was composed in the 870s, when Saint Methodius is believed to have resided at Reichenau.

Biographical evidence about his life is scarce but he is believed to have been a disciple of Saint Methodius.

That the Byzantine – Arab Wars would have been referenced in the manuscript, had it been written after 636 AD, is supported by the fact that in 692 AD a Syriac Christian adaption of the Alexander romance called the Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius was indeed written as a response to the Muslim invasions and was falsely attributed to St Methodius (?- 311 AD ); this Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius equated the evil nations of Gog and Magog with the Muslim invaders and shaped the eschatological imagination of Christendom for centuries.

Various attempts have been made to clear up the error concerning the mention of Tyre as a subsequent bishopric of Methodius ; it is possible that he was transported to Tyre during the persecution and died there.

The names of two have been inscribed by Rome in its calendar of annual feasts, namely, St. Cyril and St. Methodius, the Apostles of the Slavs.

Old Church Slavonic, Old Church Slavic ( OCS ) (, slověnĭskŭ językŭ ) was the first literary Slavic language, developed by the 9th century Byzantine Greek missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius who were credited with standardizing the language and using it for translating the Bible and other Ancient Greek ecclesiastical texts as part of the Christianisation of the Slavic peoples.

According to the hagiography of Saint Cyril and Methodius by Clement of Ohrid, Naum took part in the historic mission to Moravia together with Cyril, Methodius, Clement, Angelarius, Gorazd and other Slavic missionaries in 863.

The Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius () was a short-lived secret political society that existed in Kiev, Ukraine, at the time a part of the Russian Empire.

In the winter 1845-1846, the historian Mykola Kostomarov ( Nikolay Kostomarov in Russian ) founded the secret political society, the Brotherhood of Saints Cyril and Methodius whose members put forward the idea of federation of free Slavic people with Ukrainians as a distinct group among them rather than a part of the Russian nation.

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

* 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

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

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

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

The papal will prevailed, and Methodius secured his freedom and his archiepiscopal authority over both Great Moravia and Pannonia, though the use of Slavonic for the mass was still denied to him.

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

Inauguration of the monument to Saints Cyril and Methodius in Saratov on Slavonic Literature and Culture Day

The common cultural bond of Eastern Orthodox Christianity and written Church Slavonic ( a literary and liturgical Slavic language developed by 8th century missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius ) fostered the emergence of a new geopolitical entity, Kievan Rus ' — a loose-knit network of principalities, established along preexisting trade routes, with major centers in Novgorod ( currently Russia ), Polatsk ( in Belarus ) and Kiev ( currently in Ukraine ) — which claimed a sometimes precarious preeminence among them.

For that purpose, Cyril and his brother Methodius started to translate religious literature to Old Church Slavonic, allegedly based on Slavic dialects spoken in the hinterland of their home-town, Thessaloniki, in the region of Macedonia.

The Saints Konstantin ( i. e. Cyril ) and Methodius, sent by the Byzantine Emperor Michael III to complete the Christianization of the kingdom, created there the first written Slavic language, Old Church Slavonic, written in the Glagolitic alphabet.

* 880-First Slavic archbishopric established in Great Moravia with Methodius as its head ; Bible translated into Slavonic

The translation into Old Church Slavonic was started in 863 by Cyril and Methodius.

Important developments took place at this time, including the mission of Greek monks Cyril and Methodius, the development of the Glagolitic alphabet ( an early form of the Cyrillic script ), and the use of Old Church Slavonic as the official and literary language.

Cyril and Methodius began their mission to the Slavs, introducing the liturgical and canonical order of the Orthodox Church, translated into the Church Slavonic language.

Methodius had been imprisoned by his German enemies, who objected to his use of the Slavonic language in the liturgy.

Following Methodius ' release John allowed him to resume his episcopal duties in Illyricum, but forbid him to celebrate Mass in the Slavonic language.

The mission of Saints Cyril and Methodius was especially important as their development of the Cyrillic alphabet allowed the spread of worship in the Old Church Slavonic language.

It was named after St Cyril, who with his brother Methodius had created the earlier Glagolitic Slavonic script.

For the next 22 years, he worked with Cyril and Methodius and other missionaries in translating the Bible into Old Church Slavonic and promoted it in Great Moravia and Pannonia.

Constantine of Preslav is also the alleged author of Служба на Методия ( Service for Methodius ), showing the struggle of Saint Methodius for the recognition of Old Church Slavonic, as well as of Проглас към евангелието ( Proclamation of the Holy Gospels ) where he rejects and castigates the admiration of the foreign language ( mean.

Nevertheless, at the court of Svatopluk who himself professed the Latin rite intrigues against Methodius and the liturgy serviced in Old Church Slavonic gathered strength.

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.

Methodius vindicated his orthodoxy at Rome, the more easily as the creed was still recited there without the Filioque, and promised to obey in regard to the liturgy.

Gorazd, whom Methodius had designated as his successor, was not recognised by Pope Stephen V. The same Pope forbade the use of the Slavic liturgy and placed the infamous as Methodius ' successor.

He persuaded Pope Stephen V that Methodius had ignored Pope John VIII's orders in the matter of Slavonic liturgy, thus upon his initiative the pope prohibited the Slavonic liturgy in Moravia.

He also had several Glagolitic missals printed in the spirit of restoring the Slavonic liturgy that connected the two Christian religions of the South Slavs, and revering the work of saints Cyril and Methodius.