Category:Saints Cyril and Methodius

The memorial feast day for these brothers is February 14.

Saints Cyril and Methodius - Bishops and Confessors also known as: Equals to the Apostles; Patrons of Europe; Apostles to the Slavs Born: 826 A.D. or 827 A.D. and 815 A.D. in Thessaloniki, Byzantine Empire (present-day Greece) Died: February 14, 869 A.D. and April 6, 885 A.D. Honored in: Orthodox Church Roman Catholic Church Anglican Communion Lutheran Church Feast: May 11 and 24(Orthodox Church) February 14 (present Roman Catholic calendar); July 5 (Roman Catholic calendar 1880–1886); July 7 (Roman Catholic calendar 1887–1969) July 5(Roman Catholic Czechia and Slovakia) Attributes: brothers depicted together; Eastern bishops holding up a church; Eastern bishops holding an icon of the Last Judgment. Often, Cyril is depicted wearing a monastic habit and Methodius vested as a bishop with omophorion. Patronage: Ecumenism for unity of the Orthodox with the Roman Catholic Church in its type before 1054 Bulgaria, Republic of Macedonia, Czechia, Slovakia, Europe