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Happy feast day of Cyril & Methodius, everyone!

We celebrate their day every year as a non-denominational Feb 14 alternative of languages, learning, and books. Want to learn a new alphabet or tell a linguist you appreciate their work? Today's the day!

Find out more:
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Saints Cyril and Methodius, in an icon-stylised style. Cyril is on the left in a blue and yellow hooded robe, Methodius on the right wearing red & white and holding a book.

Cyril & Methodius Day Celebration/FAQs thread 2025

Exilian
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@tardis Yes, we're using the Catholic/western feast date rather than the Orthodox one (not out of any particular bias towards the western church, just because this whole thing for us started when someone on our forum went "hey what other saints are there for alternatives to Valentine" about 10 years ago so we started from the day!)

There's also multiple different May dates on which they're celebrated and Czechia & Slovakia have a bonus day in July apparently! They hop around the calendar a fair bit :)

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Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺

I did not know that. Thanks for sharing. I don't believe in any of these faiths, or religions, but I do respect the guys who decided to create the alphabet, first, it was called glagolitsa, then the students of the brothers made it Cyrrilic, this is what we've been taught. In any case, there is old Bulgarian where the original alphabet can still be seen, though it is unreadable for text to speech, so I have never read any old texts, though they exist.
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