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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Premiere of Art Performances Paschalia Olomucensia

Premiere of Art Performances Paschalia Olomucensia

15. 3. 2013

The organizers prepare concerts in the premises of churches in Olomouc - specifically, on 25th March, there will be a concert in the church of Saint Michael - The Janáček Quartet, Alfréd Strejček - and on 4th April in the Cathedral of Saint Wenceslas - chamber orchestra Czech Virtuosi. There will also be a unique twenty-four hour reading of the Bible, which originated in Rome. In Olomouc it will take place on Monday 18th March at 5 p.m in the chapel of Saint Jerome in the city hall. An interesting exhibition "One Light", under the auspices of Jan Budař, will offer large format photographs by Jindřich Štreit with the theme of mentally challenged people, and ceramic tiles created by handicapped people, which will be exhibited in the slype of Saint Michael's church. Within the exhibition opening on 3rd April at 5 p.m., we can look forward to a mini-concert of Jan Budař and Roman Jedlička. On the program there is also a performance of the Rhapsody Theater, which will perform the legend "El Cristo de la Luz" by Julius Zeyer from the trilogy Three Legends about the Crucifix. Actors Martin Pavlíková and Igor Dostálek will perform.

A more detailed program and timings of individual events are published on www.paschaliaolomucensia.cz

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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)