Feast of St. Cyril

 

St. Cyril (who was known though out his life as Constantine) and his brother Methodius are credited with Christianizing the Slavs. When we think of missionaries we tend to think of men and occasionally women roaming the hillsides preaching all the time, maybe handing out some biblical tracts. The problem these brothers had was that at the time, the Bible had not been translated into the Slavic language. Why? Because they didn't have an alphabet.

No problem! Cyril and Methodius invented one. It's called the Glagolitic alphabet, and was invented around 862AD.