Festival of Spirit and Script Continues

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A lecture delivered by Ing. Rostislav Rajchl, Director of the Observatory in Uherský Brod, will be one of the events definitely worth visiting.

The lecture is titled "Astronomy in the Czech Lands before and after the Arrival of Cyril and Methodius to Moravia" and you will learn, for example, answers to the following questions - What was the role of astronomy at the dawn of Christianity? How did Christianity influence the calendar? Medieval astral symbolism in sacral architecture will be mentioned as well as the conception of relations among God, the universe and man.

On the theme of his lecture Ing. Rostislav Rajchl said, "We have only brief information about astronomy of that period. Pagan Slavs observed the Moon, the Sun, and from the planets it was Venus and Jupiter. Archaeological findings informing about astronomical orientations of cult constructions and graveyards bring us to other pieces of knowledge regarding the level of astronomy at that time".
You can listen to more detailed information about this period in the small auditorium of the House of Culture in Vsetín on Thursday 28th May at 6 p.m.

The program has been prepared in cooperation with the Museum of the Wallachian Region and the Observatory in Vsetín.

Entrance fee: CZK 30, tickets to be sold at the venue.

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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)

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