Days of the People of Goodwill at Velehrad are surely the biggest celebrations connected with a national holiday of the Czech Republic. They have been taking place for 16 years already, on the occasion of the Day of the Slavonic Missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius.
more informationThe five-part docudrama will map the lives and work of the Slavonic missionaries Cyril and Methodius, primarily in an educational format.
more informationOn the occasion of the “Cyrillo-Methodian jubilee”, educational workshops for children and youth will emerge, the main aim of which will be to familiarize children with the Cyrillo-Methodian legacy in an amusing and practical way.
‘The Way of the Two Brothers’ is the title of an art competition for children 3 to 11 years of age. It is regularly announced within the July Days of the People of Goodwill at Velehrad. The aim of the project is to explain roots of our culture to children, impairing a positive model for life in the present.
It is an important spiritual center, a destination of frequent ecclesiastic pilgrimages, gatherings and Cyrillo-Methodian celebrations.
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Dokument sv. Cyril a Metoděj - Bohoslužba v katedrále sv. Víta, Václava a Vojtěcha 9. 3. 2013
Dokument sv. Cyril a Metoděj - přednáška doc. Petera Tavela 12. 3. 2013, Krajská knihovna Františka Bartoše
Dokument sv. Cyril a Metoděj - přednáška doc. Dr. Jaroslava Šebka, Ph.D. 14. 3. 2013, Muzeum Kroměřížska
Dokument sv. Cyril a Metoděj - Poutní dny v Kroměříži 22. 3. 2013
Dokument sv. Cyril a Metoděj - Arcidiecézní setkání mládeže, 23. 03. 2013, Velehrad
Dokument sv. Cyril a Metoděj - vernisáž výstavy Cyril a Metoděj. Doba, život, dílo 27. 03. 2013, Palác šlechtičen, Moravské zemské muzeum Brno
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Here are our roots.
(Blessed John Paul II, 22nd April 1990, Velehrad)
They wanted to become part of those nations and to share their destiny in everything. Here, in this place, at Velehrad, in Moravia, we can feel the historical legacy of the kingdom in a peculiar way – we can feel even those who became its keepers and guardians.
(Blessed John Paul II)
For us, people of the present age, their apostolate contains even the elocution of the ecumenical appeal, i.e. to build unity again, in a peaceful reconciliation, which later after their deaths was heavily damaged, and in the first place the unity between the East and the West.
(Blessed John Paul II)
Their work is also a very important contribution to the growth of the common Christian roots of Europe, which by their firmness and viability create one of the main contact points, which must be respected by every serious attempt at reunification of our continent in a new and topical way.
(Blessed John Paul II)
The story of both brothers, Cyril and Methodius, is a distinct example of unity.
Saints Cyril and Methodius contributed, to a great extent, to the building of Europe, not only regarding its Christian religious community but also concerning its civil and cultural unity.
(Blessed John Paul II)