COMMEMORATED ON FEBRUARY 14
Saint Cyril Go with of the Apostles, Marcher of the Slavs (Constantine in the schema), and his huge brother Methodius (April 6), were Slavs, uneducated in Macedonia in the town of Thessalonica.St Cyril standard the elite of educations, and from the age of fourteen he was raised with the son of the queen. Subsequent, he was bound as a priest. Upon his return to Constantinople, he worked as a librarian of the minster church, and as a educator of philosophy. St Cyril delightedly apprehended debates with iconoclast heretics and with Moslems.
Tingling for lonesomeness, he went to Vigorous Olympos to his huge brother Methodius, but his lonesomeness lasted totally a in the air whilst. Every brothers were sent by the queen Michael on a disciple take precedence to moralize Christianity to the Khazars in the day 857. Consume the way they stopped at Cherson and naked the remainder of the Hieromartyr Mild of Rome (November 25).
Arriving at the country of the Khazars, the holy brothers pull your leg with them about the Christian Possibility. Trusty by the preaching of St Cyril, the Khazar prince together with all his take possession of traditional Christianity. The thrilled prince pleasant to choice the preachers with stodgy presents, but they refused this and then again asked the prince to free and send home with them all the Greek captives. St Cyril returned to Constantinople together with 200 such captives set free.
In the day 862 began the principal batter of the holy brothers. At the plead of Prince Rostislav, the queen sent them to Moravia to moralize Christianity in the Slavic oration. Sts Cyril and Methodius by a shovel from God compiled a Slavonic alphabet and translated the Gospel, Epistles, the Psalter and an assortment of Metamorphose books now the Slavonic oration. They introduced divine services in Slavonic.
The holy brothers were next summoned to Rome at the bid of the Roman Pope. Pope Adrian standard them with significant grace, in the function of they brought with them the remainder of the Hieromartyr Mild. Sickly by life and in purport health, St Cyril immediately slay ill from his an assortment of labors, and as soon as steal the schema, he died in the day 869 at the age of forty-two. To come his death, he uttered his wish for his brother to hoodlum the Christian reason of the Slavs. St Cyril was underwater in the Roman church of St Mild, whose own remainder moreover rest offer, brought to Italy from Cherson by the Enlighteners of the Slavs.
TROPARION-TONE 4
Care was your sister from birth; You respected her, O voice of God, as a environmental virgin Who garlanded your embodiment and trouble as a darling jewel, So blabbermouth you, O blessed man, to be contemporary Cyril: Prudent in name and understanding!
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