CYRIL, ST.

Cyril, St.: translation

(826, Thessalonika–14 February 869, Rome) and METHODIUS (c. 815, Thessalonika–6 April 885, Stare Mesto (Velehrad), Moravia (modern Czech Republic)

   Brothers and Byzantine missionaries to Moravia instructed to teach in the vernacular. In compliance, Cyril invented the Glagolitic alphabet from which Church Slavonic is derived. The two also translated the Scriptures and liturgical hymns. (at)