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DAYS OF THE PEOPLE OF GOODWILL 2019
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.
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The five-part docudrama will map the lives and work of the Slavonic missionaries Cyril and Methodius, primarily in an educational format.
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On 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.
CHILDREN WALK THE WAY OF THE TWO BROTHERS
‘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.
VELEHRAD
It is an important spiritual center, a destination of frequent ecclesiastic pilgrimages, gatherings and Cyrillo-Methodian celebrations.
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28.1.2013
Events on the occasion of the anniversary of Saints Cyril and Methodius in the Senate
On Thursday 27th June 2013, an event will take place in the seat of the Senate, in the Wallenstein Palace at the Lesser Town of Prague, which will commemorate the important anniversary of Saints Cyril and Methodius. Under the auspices of the President of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic Milan Štěch, an exhibition of works created by a very successful restorer and painter of icons, Lenka Vlkova, will have a festive exhibition opening there. Works of art and restoration, related to the Orthodox Church, created by this first-rate female artist are well-known in the whole Europe. Mrs. Vlkova participated in restoration projects for example in Orthodox monasteries in Greece or in Germany. Her icons, making use of the poetics of renowned Byzantine masters, are also very successful and they decorate a number of Orthodox churches but also homes of Christians who are close to the Orthodox Church.
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26.1.2013
Activities Devoted to the Cyrillo-Methodian Anniversary will Continue with Lectures on History in the František Bartoš Regional Library in Zlín
In cooperation with the State Regional Archive in Zlín three lectures, which will be delivered by historians, are prepared for January and February. They will deal with Great Moravian architecture, Velehrad in the Middle Ages and the local monastery, and the Cyrillo-Methodian tradition in the Baroque art. The lectures are intended for general public. They will include also pictorial presentations as well as a space for discussion and debates answering questions from the audience. They will take place in the small auditorium of the library division for music. Entrance fee CZK 30 (reduced for children and seniors CZK 20).
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The Year of Celebrations of Cyril and Methodius will be Opened by a Conference on Beginnings of Evangelization
In the year dedicated to the legacy of the 1150th anniversary of the arrival of missionaries to Great Moravia, the theme of this year's Czech-German conference of the Czech Association "Sdružení Ackermann-Gemeinde" (SAG), which takes place on 25th - 27th January 2013, is "Beginnings of Evangelization: Dialogue of Spirituality and Society at that Time and Nowadays".
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Extension of the Pilgrims' Path of Saints Cyril and Methodius
Author of the article: Correspondent, for No. 2/2013, entered on 24th January 2013 01:26:00 PM
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The anniversary of the Olomouc Bishopric will be commemorated by a series of lectures
This year, we commemorate two important anniversaries. The first one is connected with the Cyrillo-Methodian celebrations (1150 years since the arrival of Saints Cyril and Methodius to Moravia). The other one commemorates the foundation or "restoration" of the Olomouc Bishopric in 1063.
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24.1.2013
The Opening of the Cyrillo-Methodian Year at the Tourism Fair in Brno
The biggest tourism fairs in Moravia, GO and REGIONTOUR, were opened by supreme representatives of churches in our republic – the beginning of the fair was in the spirit of the Cyrillo-Methodian anniversary – 1150 years since the arrival of Saints Cyril and Methodius to Great Moravia.
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24.1.2013
Cyril and Methodius - Unofficial trailer
We are bringing you the unofficial trailer to the docudrama series and film ‘Cyril and Methodius’ for the year 2013.
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20.1.2013
Cyril and Methodius. Lord, Preserve the Legacy of our Fathers and Mothers for us!
Otakáro M. Schmidt's documentary film with acted parts introduces the lives, work and legacy of Saints Cyril and Methodius.
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18.1.2013
Moravian regions published a common guide titled "Spiritual Legacy of Moravia and Silesia"
The publication "Spiritual Legacy of Moravia and Silesia", issued by the Olomouc Region, the South Moravian Region, the Moravian-Silesian Region and the Zlín Region, was introduced at a press conference within the REGIONTOUR 2013 fair at the Brno Exhibition Center on Thursday 17th January 2013. The guide was published in the total printing of 28,500 copies in two versions (a printed one and an electronic one) containing altogether four language mutations: Czech-Polish and German-Italian.
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29. 6. 2013
Press Conference to the Days of the People of Goodwill in Pictures
On Thursday 27th June 2013 at 1 p.m. in the Exposition on the second floor of Baťa's skyscraper a press...
27. 6. 2013
Building Bridges with Christ: Czechs and Germans - Neighbors
In the year when the Czech Republic and Slovakia commemorate the 1150th anniversary of the arrival of the...
25. 6. 2013
Official Commemorative Medals Minted on the Occasion of the 1150th Anniversary of the Slavic Mission
On the occasion of the 1150th anniversary of the Slavic mission to Great Moravia, an official commemorative...
20. 6. 2013
Children have Taken the Way of the Two Brothers, Almost 3 Thousand Pictures have Arrived
Every year, since 2006, an art contest for children aged 3 to 11 titled "The Way of the Two Brothers" has been...
18. 6. 2013
Invitation to Velehrad Film Seminar
Roman Catholic parish Velehrad invites all those interested in film to the Velehrad spiritual film seminar.
17. 6. 2013
International Conference "EUROPEAN CULTURAL PATH OF SAINTS CYRIL AND METHODIUS"
ZLÍN, VELEHRAD – Already second international conference on the project titled "European Cultural Path of...
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)
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