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Your site labels Saint Cyril as being greek, when history defines him as being Macedonian. "Saint CYRIL was a 9th-century linguist and a Greek missionary to the Slavs." I find this to be a misrepresentation of greek culture where recognition is not deserved. If you would please correct this mistake to attribute historical significance to where it is deserved it would be greatly appreciated.
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Heh
When I was little, I thought Cyril and Methodius were Bulgarian :).
Actually, St. Cyril and Methodius were Byzantine scholars who created the Slavic alphabet by orders of the Byzantine emperor, with the sole purpose of converting the pagan kingdom of Moravia to the Eastern Orthodox religion. Moravia was a Slavic kingdom on the borders of the Holy Roman Empire, and the Byzantine emperor was eager to convert them to the Eastern Orthodox branch of Christianity before Charlemagne converted them to Roman Catholicism. Btw, even if he were from Macedonia, at the time we are talking about, the geographic region of Macedonia was a part of the Byzantine empire, so St. Cyril was by all means a Byzantine subject.
Ivayla (who heroically resists to make a nationalistic comment about the Macedonian ethnicity)
When I was little, I thought Cyril and Methodius were Bulgarian :).
Actually, St. Cyril and Methodius were Byzantine scholars who created the Slavic alphabet by orders of the Byzantine emperor, with the sole purpose of converting the pagan kingdom of Moravia to the Eastern Orthodox religion. Moravia was a Slavic kingdom on the borders of the Holy Roman Empire, and the Byzantine emperor was eager to convert them to the Eastern Orthodox branch of Christianity before Charlemagne converted them to Roman Catholicism. Btw, even if he were from Macedonia, at the time we are talking about, the geographic region of Macedonia was a part of the Byzantine empire, so St. Cyril was by all means a Byzantine subject.
Ivayla (who heroically resists to make a nationalistic comment about the Macedonian ethnicity)
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Quote: Your site labels Saint Cyril as being greek, when history defines him as being Macedonian.
Comment: The history cannot define him in any way. We should ask him. The history tells us that if we asked him "What are you?", he would answer "Romaios eimai" or "Romanus sum" meaning "I am Roman".
Quote: Saint CYRIL was a 9th-century linguist and a Greek missionary to the Slavs.
Comment: Actually, he was a Roman missionary. Please correct this mistake to attribute historical significance to where it is deserved it would be greatly appreciated.
Quote: The Cyrillic alphabet, which is still used today, was created by him and his brother Methodius in order to translate the Bible into Slavic.
Comment: Actually, St. Cyril invented another alphabet now known as Glagolitic. He and his brother Methodius used that alphabet to translate the Bible into Slavic. The alphabet currently referenced as Cyrillic is merely a version of the Greek alphabet adapted for Slavic by anonymous writers in medieval Bulgaria. The books of St. Cyril and St. Methodius were transliterated from Glagolitic to Cyrillic too early, in the next decades. Glagolitic was nomore used in the Orthodox countries. In Croatia, however, it was used until 17th century.
Comment: The history cannot define him in any way. We should ask him. The history tells us that if we asked him "What are you?", he would answer "Romaios eimai" or "Romanus sum" meaning "I am Roman".
Quote: Saint CYRIL was a 9th-century linguist and a Greek missionary to the Slavs.
Comment: Actually, he was a Roman missionary. Please correct this mistake to attribute historical significance to where it is deserved it would be greatly appreciated.
Quote: The Cyrillic alphabet, which is still used today, was created by him and his brother Methodius in order to translate the Bible into Slavic.
Comment: Actually, St. Cyril invented another alphabet now known as Glagolitic. He and his brother Methodius used that alphabet to translate the Bible into Slavic. The alphabet currently referenced as Cyrillic is merely a version of the Greek alphabet adapted for Slavic by anonymous writers in medieval Bulgaria. The books of St. Cyril and St. Methodius were transliterated from Glagolitic to Cyrillic too early, in the next decades. Glagolitic was nomore used in the Orthodox countries. In Croatia, however, it was used until 17th century.
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