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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CYRIL AND METHODIUS IN FILM
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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SCHOOL OF CYRIL AND METHODIUS
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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12.5.2013

INVITATION to Vsetín

Within the festival called Bulgaria in Moravia 2013 – The Festival of Spirit and Script, which is taking place on the occasion of the 1150th anniversary of the arrival of Cyril and Methodius to Moravia, a Cyrillo-Methodian meeting titled "Word and Song" will be held in the House of Culture in Vsetín.

12.5.2013

Břeclav Prepares Great Moravian Paths

Within Cyrillo-Methodian celebrations the city of Břeclav is preparing Great Moravian paths.

5.5.2013

Festive Unveiling of the Sculptural Group Portraying Saints Cyril and Methodius at Petrov in Brno

The Moravian Metropolis is also joining the celebrations of the 1150th anniversary of the arrival of Saints Cyril and Methodius to Great Moravia. On Thursday 6th June 2013 at 10 a.m., a sculptural group portraying Saints Cyril and Methodius will be festively unveiled at the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in Brno by its authors, Vladimír Matoušek and Ing. arch. Radim Horák.

23.4.2013

iDNES: Adjustments Awaiting the Surroundings of Methodius' Grave; The Celebrations will Offer a Spectacular Projection

Adjustments are awaiting the highland of Sadska výšina, a locality in Uherské Hradište connected with the Christian missionaries, Cyril and Methodius. Their first part needs to be finished before July when the first part of the program of the spectacular celebrations of the 1150th anniversary of the arrival of the learned men from Solun to Great Moravia will take place.

19.4.2013

Secrets of the Palace Chapel

This year we commemorate the 1150th anniversary of the arrival of Saints Cyril and Methodius to Great Moravia. The Archbishop's Palace in Kroměříž contributes to the celebrations of this significant event with a special opening of the palace chapel, making it accessible to the public.

18.4.2013

The Museum of the Hlučínsko Region Issues a Magazine with a Theme of "Saints in the Life of the Hlučínsko Region"

Hlučín – In the year of the 1150th anniversary of the arrival of Saints Cyril and Methodius to Great Moravia, a topical issue of the magazine of the Museum of the Hlučínsko Region was published in Hlučín, with a theme of "Saints in the Life of the Hlučínsko Region". There, readers can read not only about reverence for the saint misionaries but also about the relationship of the inhabitants of "Prajzsko" to Saint Urban.

18.4.2013

Velehrad Heard Prayers of Six Hundred Priests. They Met There after 28 Years

Six hundreds of priests from the whole country arrived at the basilica in the pilgrims' village of Velehrad in the region of Uherske Hradiste, to participate in a national pilgrimage on Tuesday, which precedes the celebrations of the arrival of the Slavic learned men to Great Moravia. The last time Velehrad experienced such a great church gathering was during the communist regime in 1985.

18.4.2013

Olomouc: Next week begins large exhibition about Cyril and Methodius

OLOMOUC - On Thursday 25th April begins in Olomouc Archdiocesan Museum exhibition "Between the East and the West Saints Cyril and Methodius in the Culture of Czech Lands". The exhibition runs until 11st August 2013.

16.4.2013

DAYS OF SLAVIC CULTURE 2013

In 2013, a new item on the program will open annual activities, which will officially launch the summer cultural season and, at the same time, will commemorate a remarkable event – the arrival of the Solun brothers, Cyril and Methodius, to Great Moravia and the foundation of the real foundations of Slavic erudition and culture.

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29. 6. 2013

1150th anniversary of Cyril and Methodius

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)