#st cyril and methodius

[ahopefulbromantic]

Because we're both too single to celebrate Valentine's Day fully, and because there are two other great saints that have their feast day on 14th February that everyone keeps forgetting about, my friend and i have our own tradition of celebrating

Cyril and Methodius' Day

If you don't know my awesome boys, they are brothers, they're often called "Apostles to the Slavs" and "co-patrons of Europe" because they set out to evangelize Slavic people and they were very cool about it. They also invented Glagolitic alphabet which later evolved into Cyrillic script (named after St. Cyril!) used to this day eg. in Russia and Ukraine.

So to celebrate Cyril and Methodius' Day each year @gal-9 and i meet to read Christian texts in Old Church Slavonic (yeah it's an actual language) and i gotta tell you it is so much fun highly recommend!

[anastpaul]

One Minute Reflection – 7 July – ' ... If you say you abide in Christ, you ought to walk as He walked. ... '

One Minute Reflection – 7 July – “The Month of the Most Precious Blood” – Saint Cyril (827-869) and Saint Methodius (826-885) “Apostles to the Slavs,” Sibling Brother Bishops, Confessors – Romans 6:19-23; Matthew 7:15-21 – Scripture search here: https://www.drbo.org/ “By their fruits you shall know them.”- Matthew 7:16 REFLECTION – “Do you believe in Christ? Do the works of Christ, so that your…

[catholic-saint-tournament]

I was about to recommend St. Catherine of Sienna and-or St. Hildegard von Bingen, also St. Jadwiga of Poland, but I see You've already got them all, so You can treat this ask as their propaganda.

Among traditional/folk Saints I can think of St. Florian (commonly venerated as a patron of firefighters), St. Maurice, and Saints Cosmas and Damian (patrons of doctors).

Among others: St. Cyril and Methodius (apostles of the Slavs) St Joseph of Cupertino (patron of pilots, astronauts and people with learning disabilities)

there's also St. Hyacinth of Poland, legends of whom associate him with pierogi :D

OOOOOOOH SO MUCH GREATNESS IN JUST ONE ASK!

Ok, votes added for St Catherine of Siena, St Hildegard, St Hedwig, St Hyacinth, and St Joseph of Cupertino.

New entries created for Sts Cyril and Methodius (package deal), the Slavic missionaries. SUPER fun fact: their feastday is February 14 and I prefer to celebrate that than St Valentine.

As for the folk/traditional saints - too late to add them to the bracket! :(

[timetravelingmachine]

"Kill them with kindness" Wrong. CURSE OF SIMEON

А Б В Г Д Е Ж З И Й К Л М Н О П Р С Т У Ф Х Ц Ч Ш Щ Ъ Ь Ю Я

“kill them with kindness” Wrong. CURSE OF RA 𓀀 𓀁 𓀂 𓀃 𓀄 𓀅 𓀆 𓀇 𓀈 𓀉 𓀊 𓀋 𓀌 𓀍 𓀎 𓀏 𓀐 𓀑 𓀒 𓀓 𓀔 𓀕 𓀖 𓀗 𓀘 𓀙 𓀚 𓀛 𓀜 𓀝 𓀞 𓀟 𓀠 𓀡 𓀢 𓀣 𓀤 𓀥 𓀦 𓀧 𓀨 𓀩 𓀪 𓀫 𓀬 𓀭 𓀮 𓀯 𓀰 𓀱 𓀲 𓀳 𓀴 𓀵 𓀶 𓀷 𓀸 𓀹 𓀺 𓀻 𓀼 𓀽 𓀾 𓀿 𓁀 𓁁 𓁂 𓁃 𓁄 𓁅 𓁆 𓁇 𓁈 𓁉 𓁊 𓁋 𓁌 𓁍 𓁎 𓁏 𓁐 𓁑 𓀄 𓀅 𓀆

[archaeologyinbulgaria]

Archaeologists Research Two Noble Families in First Bulgarian Empire’s Capital Veliki Preslav

Part of the ruins of medieval Bulgarian capital Veliki Preslav (Great Preslav), First Bulgarian Empire. Photo: National Institute and Museum of Archaeology, Europeana Carare Project Archaeologists are researching the lives of two noble families from Veliki Preslav (“Great Preslav”), the capital of the First Bulgarian Empire in 893-970 AD during the excavation of an early medieval monastery there,…

[hiljametsa]

Happy Sts. Cyril and Methodius Day.

[proud-spaniard]

514x800 Saints Cyril and Methodius, painting by Jan Matejko, 1885

[pretordh]

Battle near Kruty

HOW THE YOUNG PEOPLE DEFENDED KYIV

On January 29, 1918, the battle near Kruty took place. At that time, about 400 cadets and students held back the attack on Kyiv by the almost 4000 strong Bolshevik army. The Battle of Kruty took place at the Kruty railway station in modern Chernihiv Oblast, 130 kilometers from Kyiv. It lasted more than five hours.

The Russians had a tenfold advantage in manpower, they had an armored train and artillery. Averkiy Goncharenko commanded the UNR troops near Kruty. Thanks to the advantageous position and the heroism of the fighters, the Ukrainians managed to inflict significant losses on the Russians and restrain the offensive until dark. Then, under the pressure of the enemy, most of the units retreated in an organized manner to the echelons at the station nearby and went towards Kyiv, destroying the railway tracks behind them. But one group of students - 27 young men - got lost in the dark and returned to the Kruty station, which at that time was already occupied by the Bolsheviks. They were captured. The prisoners were tortured and then executed. Later, some of the heroes were buried at the Askold grave in Kyiv.

Today, the names of 20 of them are known. These are students of the People's University Oleksandr Sherstyuk, Isidor Puryk, Borozenko-Kononchuk, Golovaschuk, Chyzhov, Sirik, Omelchenko (centurion); students of St. Volodymyr Kyiv University Oleksandr Popovych, Volodymyr Shulgin, Mykola Lyzogub, Bozhko-Bozhynskyi, Dmytrenko, Andriiv; high school students of the 2nd Cyril and Methodius high school Andriy Sokolovskyi, Yevhen Ternavskyi, Volodymyr Hnatkevych, Grihyr Pipskyi, Ivan Sorokevich, Pavlo Kolchenko (ensign), Mykola Hankevich.

[mothmiso]

My Bulgaria - Sozopol (2) (3) (4) by Lyura

Via Flickr:

(2) Church of St. St. Cyril and Methodius (3) Restaurant on the rocks     

[schleyer]

tomorrow is the (western) feast day of sts cyril and methodius progenitors of the cyrillic alphabet :-)

[lost-boy-into-the-upper-heavenly]

St. Cyril and Methodius Cemetery,

Bethlehem Pennsylvania....

[thepastisalreadywritten]

SAINT OF THE DAY (August 9)

On August 9, the Catholic Church remembers St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, also known as St. Edith Stein.

St. Teresa converted from Judaism to Catholicism in the course of her work as a philosopher and later entered the Carmelite Order.

She died in the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz in 1942.

Edith Stein was born on 12 October 1891 – a date that coincided with her family's celebration of Yom Kippur, the Jewish “day of atonement.”

Edith's father died when she was just two years old, and she gave up the practice of her Jewish faith as an adolescent.

As a young woman with profound intellectual gifts, Edith gravitated toward the study of philosophy and became a pupil of the renowned professor Edmund Husserl in 1913.

Through her studies, the non-religious Edith met several Christians whose intellectual and spiritual lives she admired.

After earning her degree with the highest honors from Gottingen University in 1915, she served as a nurse in an Austrian field hospital during World War I.

She returned to academic work in 1916, earning her doctorate after writing a highly-regarded thesis on the phenomenon of empathy.

She remained interested in the idea of religious commitment but had not yet made such a commitment herself.

In 1921, while visiting friends, Edith spent an entire night reading the autobiography of the 16th-century Carmelite nun St. Teresa of Avila.

“When I had finished the book,” she later recalled, “I said to myself: This is the truth.”

She was baptized into the Catholic Church on the first day of January 1922.

Edith intended to join the Carmelites immediately after her conversion but would ultimately have to wait another 11 years before taking this step.

Instead, she taught at a Dominican school and gave numerous public lectures on women's issues.

In 1931, she spent her time writing a study of St. Thomas Aquinas and took a university teaching position in 1932.

In 1933, the rise of Nazism, combined with Edith's Jewish ethnicity, put an end to her teaching career.

After a painful parting with her mother, who did not understand her Christian conversion, she entered a Carmelite convent in 1934, taking the name “Teresa Benedicta of the Cross” as a symbol of her acceptance of suffering.

“I felt,” she wrote, “that those who understood the Cross of Christ should take upon themselves on everybody's behalf.”

She saw it as her vocation “to intercede with God for everyone, but she prayed especially for the Jews of Germany whose tragic fate was becoming clear."

“I ask the Lord to accept my life and my death,” she wrote in 1939, “so that the Lord will be accepted by his people and that his kingdom may come in glory, for the salvation of Germany and the peace of the world.”

After completing her final work, a study of St. John of the Cross entitled “The Science of the Cross,” Teresa Benedicta was arrested along with her sister Rosa (who had also become a Catholic) and the members of her religious community on 7 August 1942.

The arrests came in retaliation against a protest letter by the Dutch Bishops, decrying the Nazi treatment of Jews.

Teresa Benedicta of the Cross died in the concentration camp at Auschwitz on 9 August 1942.

Pope John Paul II beatified her as a martyr on 1 May 1987 and then canonized 11 years later on 11 October 1998.

She is one of the six patron saints of Europe, together with Benedict of Nursia, Cyril and Methodius, Bridget of Sweden, and Catherine of Siena.

[why-bless-your-heart]

ash wednesday is on st. valentine’s cyril’s and methodius’s day this year, believe it or not.

can’t spell “valentine” without “lent”!

[orthodoxadventure]

The Monastery of St. Naum of Ohrid

The monastery is located twenty miles from Ohrid, near the border with Albania, on the cliffs of the southern shore of Lake Ohrid. At the end of the ninth century, it was built by St. Naum, the young disciple of Sts. Cyril and Methodius, and dedicated to the holy Archangel Michael. After St. Naum reposed and was canonized, the monastery took his name, and here lie his holy relics.

During the Ottoman yoke, the monastery was destroyed, and only the columns of the tribelon from the original monastery have survived to this day. Archaeological research has shown that the current church was built on the foundation of the original church in the period between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It underwent reconstruction several times and was also significantly expanded. The carved iconostasis dates to 1711, and the iconography to the eighteenth century. The abbot Archimandrite Nektary has undertaken great labors to revive and beautify the monastery in recent years.

Besides the educational activity of the medieval Preslav and Ohrid schools, St. Naum of Ohrid is known for the miracles that occurred and still occur by his prayers to this day, and his special prayerful assistance to those who are mentally ill. It’s known that St. John of Shanghai and San Francisco venerated this saint and would visit the mentally ill with an icon of St. Naum of Ohrid blessed on his relics.

|| Source: OrthoChristian.com ||

[warismenstrualenvy]

“Four years ago, I had the pleasure to meet him and directly delight in his innocent kindness and simplicity. People from Sofia know him as Elder Dobri Dobrev from the village Baylovo. He is a 96 year old elder who could often be seen standing in front of the church St. Alexander Nevsky or St. Methodius and Cyril and their five disciples with his metal cashbox and begging for money. He gives the collected money for renewing of the monasteries and churches or to poor people.

I met him at the Church of St. Kyriaki, when I was attending the Holy Liturgy which was led by several bishops, in the presence of the graceful relics of St. Stephen Milutin the King. Simply, he entered through the church gate, stood in front of the relics and, as a young boy, made a few deep bows [prostrations]. That was an amazing scene, especially because of the feeling of unworthiness when God crosses our life-path with one of His righteous men."

— Maran Ata on Bulgarian Elder Dobri, a holy man of God (x)

[anastpaul]

Pentecost VII, Solemnity of Sts Peter and Paul, Onze Zoeten Dame van Den Bosch, Arras / Our Lady of Arras, Netherlands (1380), Sts Cyril and Methodius, St Lawrence Brindisi and the Saints for 7 July

Pentecost VII Onze Zoeten Dame van Den Bosch, Arras / Our Lady of Arras, Netherlands (1380) – 7 July:HERE:https://anastpaul.com/2021/07/07/onze-zoeten-dame-van-den-bosch-arras-our-lady-of-arras-netherlands-1380-and-memorials-of-the-saints-7-july/ Saint Cyril (827-869)Saint Methodius (826-885)“Apostles to the Slavs,” Sibling Brother Bishops, Confessors, Theologians, Missionaries, Writers,…