Saint Cyril - Wooden icon in canvas with gold background on carved wood - Mount Athos

Seriograph icon crafted in canvas with gold background on carved wood.

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Saint Cyril

Cyril was born in 827 A.D. in Thessaloniki of the Byzantine Empire and slept in Rome in February 869 A.D. Together with his brother Methodius they Christianized the Slaves of Danube and influenced the religious and cultural identity of all Slaves. For this reason precisely, they were named "the Apostles of the Slaves". The Emperor Michael III and Patriarch Fotios asked from Cyril, whose real name was Constantine, and his brother Methodius, following the request of the Prince of Moravia, Rostislav, to become missionaries. They translated the Bible in the ancient Slavonic language and later in the Glagolitic alphabet (the oldest known Slavic alphabet) which was based on Greek letters, and is used till today, in its final form, as the alphabet of the contemporary Russian and of many Slavic languages. Their after death influence reached Croatia, Bohemia and Poland. Cyril and Methodius were very early proclaimed Saints of the Orthodox Church but since 1880 their memory is also celebrated by the Roman Catholic Church.