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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16.4.2013

The Rhapsody Theater Prepared a Cultural Experience to the Citizens of Olomouc

OLOMOUC – On Monday 15th April, within the project called PASCHALIA OLOMUCENSIA, a theater performance took place in the chapel of the Divine Mercy. It was called El Cristo de la Luz. The play written by Julius Zeyer was performed by the Rhapsody Theater which is very similar to a group of young Polish students of the same name, a member of which was also Karol Wojtyla (later Pope John Paul II). The main roles were acted by Martina Pavlíková and Igor Dostálek.

15.4.2013

COMPETITION WITH CYRIL AND METHODIUS

This year, we commemorate an important anniversary. 1150 will have passed since the arrival of missionaries, Saints Cyril and Methodius, to Great Moravia. It is a remarkable international event and various projects take place throughout the republic on this occasion - exhibitions, conferences, lectures, seminars, concerts, holy masses, educational and interactive programs for children and young people, interesting publications are issued, contests and a number of other events are organized. One interesting quiz has been launched on the Cyrillo-Methodian website www.velehrad.eu and on Facebook Velehrad 2013 – Cyril and Methodius 1150 years.

10.4.2013

Pilgrimages for priests to Velehrad have a tradition

Several hundreds of priests and deacons, together with bishops of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia, will meet at Velehrad during the national pilgrimage on 15th – 17th April 2013. However, the meeting, which is part of this year's celebrations of the Cyrillo-Methodian anniversary as well as of the Year of Faith, which is underway, is not the first assembly of this sort at this significant Moravian place of pilgrimage.

8.4.2013

Invitation to a lecture delivered by PhDr. Vladimír Vavřínek, CSc. - BYZANTINE MISSIONS

You will learn about the beginnings of Christianity in Great Moravia, the mission of Constantine-Cyril and Methodius and the Slavic literary erudition at a lecture delivered by a Czech historian specializing in Byzantine-Slavic relationships, PhDr. Vladimír Vavřínek, CSc., who worked as a scientist at the Institute for the History of Eastern Europe (Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences) for a number of years, he was a director of the Slavic Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic and a member of many scientific councils and committees. He lectures at universities and academic institutes in the USA, Germany, Austria, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, Greece, Spain, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Russia.

7.4.2013

Velehrad Camera Contest to Focus on Cyril and Methodius This Year

On the occasion of the anniversary year 2013, when we commemorate the 1150th anniversary of the arrival of Saints Constantine and Methodius to Moravia, Stojan's Grammar School at Velehrad organizes the second year of the contest for young film makers called "Velehrad Camera". Even this year the contest is held under the auspices of the Archishop of Olomouc, Jan Graubner, in cooperation with Noe TV and it is supported by other media partners.

4.4.2013

OLOMOUC: Exhibition in the Archdiocesan Museum

Between the East and the West
Saints Cyril and Methodius in the Culture of Czech Lands
Date: 25th April - 11th August 2013
Venue: Archdiocesan Museum in Olomouc | Gallery, Ambit

4.4.2013

National Pilgrimage to Velehrad for Priests

Between 15th and 17th April 2013, within the celebrations of the 1150th anniversary of the arrival of Saints Cyril and Methodius, a pilgrimage for bishops, priests and deacons to Velehrad will take place. There they want to ask for renewal of their faith and their sanctification.

2.4.2013

Festival of Spirit and Scripture in Vsetín

This year is an important year when we commemorate the 1150th anniversary of the arrival of Saints Cyril and Methodius to Moravia. Their mission brought a new script and Christian faith to the territory of Great Moravia.

31.3.2013

The Czech Television: Moravian Theater to Celebrate the Arrival of the Missionaries

Olomouc – On the occasion of the 1150th anniversary of the arrival of Cyril and Methodius to Great Moravia, Moravian Theater Olomouc will rehearse a new play. In June, it will stage a chamber opera titled "Noc plná světla" (Night Full of Light) by Zdenek Pololánik in the world premiere. The play comes from a libretto by the Bishop of Olomouc, Josef Hrdlička, and music composition by Zdenek Pololánik. It will be directed by Michael Tarant.

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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)