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The Medieval Church · begun 863

The Slavonic Scriptures and Liturgy

Constantine-Cyril and Methodius · Cyril, c. 826 – 869; Methodius, c. 815 – 885

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What it is

The gospels, the psalter, the epistles, and the liturgy rendered into Slavonic in a purpose-built alphabet, for a mission to Moravia. Frankish clergy objected that God could be worshipped in three languages only; the brothers took the case to Rome and won.

Why it lasted

The third liturgical language of Christendom, created deliberately and defended successfully against the trilingual heresy. Every Orthodox Slav church still worships in the language this translation invented, and Cyrillic script descends from it.

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Where to read it

Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.

These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.

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