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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - SS Cyril & Methodius
DESCRIPTION:SAINTS CYRIL AND METHODIUS \nFrom Butler’s Lives of the Saints \n◊◊◊ \nIn 862 there arrived in Constantinople an ambassador charged by \nRostislav\, prince of Moravia\, to ask if the emperor would send him missionaries \ncapable of teaching his people in their own language. Photius\, now patriarch of \nConstantinople\, decided that Cyril and Methodius were most suitable for the \nwork; they were learned men\, who knew Slavonic. \nIn 863 the two brothers set out with a number of assistants and came to \nthe court of Rostislav. The new missionaries made free use of the vernacular in \ntheir preaching and ministrations\, and this made immediate appeal to the local \npeople. To the German clergy this was objectionable\, and their opposition was \nstrengthened when the Emperor Louis forced Rostislav to take an oath of fealty \nto him. The Byzantine missionaries\, armed with their pericopes from the \nScriptures and liturgical hymns in Slavonic\, pursued their way with much \nsuccess\, but were soon handicapped by their lack of a bishop to ordain more \npriests. The German prelate\, the bishop of Passau\, would not do it\, and Cyril \ntherefore determined to seek help elsewhere\, presumably from Constantinople \nwhence he came. \nOn their way the brothers arrived in Venice. It was at a bad moment. \nPhotius at Constantinople had incurred excommunication; the proteges of the \nEastern emperor and their liturgical use of a new tongue were vehemently \ncriticized. They came to Rome bringing with them alleged relics of Pope St \nClement\, which St Cyril had recovered when in the Crimea on his way back from \nthe Khazars. Adrian II warmly welcomed the bearers of so great a gift. He \nexamined their cause\, and he gave judgment: Cyril and Methodius were to \nreceived episcopal consecration\, their neophytes were to be ordained\, and the \nuse of the liturgy in Slavonic was approved. \nWhile still in Rome Cyril died\, on February 14\, 869. He was buried with \ngreat pomp in the church of San Clemente on the Coelian\, where the relics of St \nClement had been enshrined. St Methodius now took up his brother’s \nleadership. Having been consecrated bishop he returned\, bearing a letter from \nthe Holy See recommending him as a man of “exact understanding and \northodoxy”. Kosel\, prince of Pannonia\, asked that the ancient archdiocese of \nSirmium (now Mitrovitsa) be revived. Methodius was made metropolitan and \nthe boundaries of his charge extended to the borders of Bulgaria.
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