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Death of Methodius
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Death of Rurik of Novgorod
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Death of St. Cyril
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Death of Princess Olga of Kiev
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St. Cyril
Cyril & Methodius were known as “the apostles of the Slavs.”
Professor of philosophy at the patriarchal school in Constantinople. -
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St. Methodius
Both were outstanding scholars, theologians, and linguists.
invented a Slavic alphabet based on Greek characters that in its final Cyrillic form is still in use as the alphabet for modern Russian and a number of other Slavic languages. -
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Princess Olga of Kiev
Founder, with her grandson Vladimir, of Russian Christianity.
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Rurik of Novgorod
Rurik was a Viking, or Varangian, prince.
Rurik came from the Scandinavian peninsula or from Jutland (now in Denmark) and seized the town of Ladoga.
Rurik is widely regarded as the founding father of Russia.
