Cyrillos & Methodios - Cyril and Methodius

[Ptolemy]

two brothers, the Apostles of the Sclavonians or Slavs, born in Greece and educated in Constantinople.

"Book of the Saints 1921" by Monks Benedictine, P. 74

[Ptolemy]

Cyril, St 827-69 and Methodius, St 826-85, known as the Apostles of the Slavs - Greek Christian missionaries- They were born in Thessalonica.

"The Riverside Dictionary of Biography" by the American Heritage Dictionaries, p. 208

[Ptolemy]

two greek brothers, Cyril and Methodius, were sent in response to this request. This development was of particular importance to the formation of eastern european culture.

"historical Theology" by McGrath, p.125

[Ptolemy]

the byzantine emperor sent two greek monks, Cyril and Methodius, to spread Christianity to the slavic people.

"Global History & Geography" by Phillip Lefton, p. 130

[Ptolemy]

As the Slav tribes feel under the influence of Byzantium a considerable number of them were baptised but they were first converted to Christianity in Mass by the Greek brothers, Cyril and Methodius

Black lamb and Grey Falcon: A journey through Yugoslave" by Rebecca West, P. 710

[Amyntas]

"Cyrillus autem et Methodius fratres, Graeci, Thessalonicae nati..."

http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/j...irtutis_lt.html

http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/jo...rtutis_lt.html

Pope John Paul II.

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http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/jo...rtutis_lt.html

"Cyrillus autem et Methodius fratres, Graeci, Thessalonicae nati..."

Translation

Graeci is a synonym for Greek meaning that Cyrillus and (et) Methodius were Greeks (Thessalonicae is present day Thessaloniki)

[Amyntas]

When I posted that quote in a german forum (dont worry our brothers here in germany also do their work ) the skops started complaining that this is greek propaganda....lol....the Pope (a catholic!) who is a slav himselve (Polish) is spreading anti-slavic propaganda from greece?

[HellenicPride]

The conversion of the Slavs to the christian faith through the Greek Orthodox Church was done during the 9th century by two Greek Thessalonian monks named Cyril and Methodius. They taught the Greek based Cyrillic script to the Slavs and enlightened them regarding religion. The cultural history of the Slavs, founded on Byzantine Christiano/Hellenic culture, begins from this period. Even this event which affected almost half of the inhabitants of Europe, including the eastern and southern Slavs, owes its existence to Macedonia, to the Greek Macedonian monks and to the Byzantine Greek culture.

Certain Slavs maintain that Cyril and Methodius were Slavs. The Skopians maintain an even stranger more untruthful theory, that is, that Cyril and Methodius as Thessalonians were Macedonian Slavs and consequently, the Skopians as descendants of the Macedonians enjoy the privelege of having enlightened their compatriots.

These theories received a powerful slap from the Slav Pope John Paul II, who on the 31 of December 1980, and through an official apostolic cirgular ( Egregiae Virtuis ) addressed to the entire catholic church, as well as with a letter to the President of the Greek Republic, Constatine Karamnlis, proclaims that Cyril and Methodius , ' brother Greeks, born in Thessaloniki' are consecrated 'divine protectors of Europe'. The Pope repeated his proclamation on the 14th of February 1981 in the church of Saint Celemens in Rome.

The Pope apart, other Slavs, politicians and historians accept the Greekness of Methodius and Cryil. For example, the Czech Byzantinist Fr. Dvornik, the Serb historians of ancient Serbian literature, P. Popovitch, Dj. Sh. Radovich and Dj. Trijunovich. Also the Slovenian historian and professor of the University of Ljubljana, B. Grajenauer, and the Serb Professor V. Bogdanovich who in his opus The History of Ancient Serbian Literature writes: " Cyril and Methodius were born in Thessaloniki and in their lineage they are not Slavs but Greeks."

The falsification of Macedonian history until World War II was mainly the work of Bulgarian historians of the pre-war regime. This line was followed even after World War II by the Bulgaro-Macedonians of America, with the result of creating sharp conflicts between themselves and our compatriot immigrants of Macedonia.

Source The Falsification of Macedonian History, by Nicolaos K. Martis pages 18-19

[akritas]

One from the major sourses that describe the life of the Saints are of course the Slavonic insriptions. There are 7 biographies and none of them mentioned that the Saints were Slavs.The choronology of those estimated from 7th to 9th cen A.D.
Actually they mention that were Greeks.

Now below there are some quotes that mention clear that Methodios learned the Slavonic language and not that was something that knew it and Cyrill did knew it