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  • In this context, Benedict XVI recalled how, even before their mission to Moravia, Cyril and Methodius were working on a plan to gather Christian dogmas into books written in Slavic.

    Pope John Paul II 2009

  • "Cyril and Methodius were convinced that individual peoples could not claim to have fully received the Revelation until they had heard it in their own language and read it in the letters of their own alphabet".

    Pope John Paul II 2009

  • By exercising their own charism, Cyril and Methodius made a decisive contribution to the building of Europe not only in Christian religious communion but also to its civil and cultural union.

    Pope John Paul II 2009

  • Methodius returned to Moravia and Pannonia in 870 "where he worked actively in organising the Church and in forming a group of disciples".

    Pope John Paul II 2009

  • VATICAN CITY, 17 JUN 2009 (VIS) - Sts. Cyril and Methodius, apostles of the Slavs and co-patrons of Europe, were the subject of the Holy Father's catechesis during his general audience, which was held this morning in St. Peter's Square.

    Pope John Paul II 2009

  • Cyril and Methodius, in their personality and their work, are figures that awaken in all Christians a great "longing for union" and for unity between the two sister Churches of East and West.

    Pope John Paul II 2009

  • The faith of Christians, from the time of Sts. Cyril and Methodius and the early missionaries, has in fact played a decisive role in shaping the spiritual and cultural heritage of this country.

    Benedict XVI on Europe, Communism, hope, faith, and freedom 2009

  • The missal prepared for the feast of Ss. Cyril and Methodius.

    Solemn Mass in Grüssau 2009

  • Cyril and Methodius are as it were the connecting links or spiritual bridge between the Eastern and Western traditions, which both come together in the one great Tradition of the universal Church.

    Pope John Paul II 2009

  • Soon afterwards his older brother Methodius, born about the year 815, abandoned his own administrative career and retired to a monastery on Mount Olympus in Bithynia where he was subsequently joined by Cyril.

    Pope John Paul II 2009

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