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The Importance of Cyril and Methodius
Summary: Cyril and Methoudioius had a profound influence on the world by creating their alphabet. These Thesalonian brothers renounced thier family wealth, choosing a spitiritual and intellectual existance. The invention of the alphabet was to better enable them to work in several languages, as they performed their missionary work.
Throughout history there have been many people that have changed the course of history. These people are remembered for the rest of eternity. Some are remembered as great scholars and some as genius mathematicians. There are also those who are never forgotten because they were baddest of the bad. But the greatest achievement is to be remembered as a saint because of a wonderful thing you did that helped humanity. That's exactly what these two brothers, Cyril and Methodius, did.
These brothers were born in Thessalonica, in 827 and 826. They were born into a family of great power and wealth but they renounce these worldly processions and decided to follow a religious path, becoming priest. The Khazars sent to Constantinople were looking for a missionary to take control and luckily at the moment they were at a monastery in the Bosphorous. So Cyril was selected to be the missionary...
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