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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Cyrillo-Methodian Velehrad

26. 11. 2012

Reading and listening for everybody

During the celebrations of the 1150th anniversary of the arrival of Saints Cyril and Methodius to Great Moravia authorial readings of contemporary Christian authors will take place. The cycle of the authorial readings will be accompanied by talks and discussions on topics connected with personalities of the authors and their books. Among those who have accepted invitations are Marie Svatošová, a female physician and foundress of the Czech hospice movement; Jiří Grygar, an astronomer and propagator of science; Martin Komárek, a journalist and commentator; Peter Tavel, a psychologist and theologian; and other personalities. The rhapsody theater will introduce a composed program with classical music and English spiritual poetry “Diamond and Teardrop”.

The first evening of the cycle will take place on Wednesday 28th November. At 5 p.m. in the František Bartoš Regional Library a meeting with the journalist Martin Komárek will take place. The meeting will be devoted to the authorial reading from his book Bůh nezná budoucnost (God does not know the future). There will also be space for questions related to the journalistic profession of Mr. Komárek. The following day, Martin Komárek will speak in the Masaryk Public Library in Vsetín and have a discussion with students there.

Cyrillo-Methodian Velehrad in literature

On the occasion of the Cyrillo-Methodian anniversary the František Bartoš Regional Library issues a selected bibliography related to the Cyrillo-Methodian Velehrad in literature. The bibliography provides a summary of fundamental works on the themes connected with the Cyrillo-Methodian tradition and the history of Velehrad. It should help, above all, to pupils and students in their basic orientation and directing to further reading, but also to the broad public interested in their cultural and historical roots.

The electronic version of the bibliography contains, apart from the below listed titles, a complete summary of all selected works which are supplemented with references to the catalogue of the František Bartoš Regional Library and the Union Catalogue of the Czech Republic. The bibliography is available on the website of the regional library: www.kfbz.cz/cmv/

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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)