What holiday is May 24 in the church calendar

On May 24, the church honors the memory of the holy Equal-to-the-Apostles brothers Cyril and Methodius. What do we know about this day?

The church calendar for May 24 is the day of memory of the holy Equal-to-the-Apostles brothers Cyril and Methodius.

On Tuesday, May 24, 2022, the Church honors the memory of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Brothers Cyril and Methodius.

They were Slavic enlighteners, creators of the Slavic alphabet, the first translators of liturgical books in Greek, preachers of Christianity. Born in Thessalonica (now Thessaloniki, Greece). Until now, we use the Slavic alphabet of Cyril and Methodius. The alphabet was named Cyrillic in honor of the youngest of the brothers.

The history of the Cyrillic alphabet is inextricably linked with Orthodoxy. The brothers used the alphabet they themselves created to translate the Holy Scriptures and other books from Greek. And the first words written in Cyrillic were the lines of the Paschal Gospel of John: “In the beginning there was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God .”

Often, the feat of life of Cyril and Methodius is equated with the apostolic, calling them the “first teachers” of the Slavs. They were classified as saints in ancient times, more precisely in the 9th century. Methodius was the eldest of seven brothers. The younger one, Konstantin, received a new name (Cyril) after being tonsured a monk just before his death.

The “Tale of Bygone Years” describes the request of the Slavic princes to the Byzantine king Michael: ” Our land is baptized, but there is no teacher who would instruct and teach us and explain the holy books. After all, we do not know either Greek or Latin, some teach us like this, and others otherwise, from this we do not know either the shape of the letters or their meaning. And send us teachers who could tell us about book words and their content . “

The king then summoned two learned brothers (Cyril and Methodius) and persuaded them to go to the Slavic land to Rostislav, Svyatopolk and Kotsela. Here the brothers began to compose the Slavic alphabet, translated the Gospel. This happened in 863.

Church calendar for May 24: video

Folk omens

• If it’s wet on Methodius’ day, then the summer will be wet.
• The horse shakes its mane – wait for the rain.
• May 24 is hot, which means that the summer will be dry, and if it is foggy, then the summer will be rainy.

What not to do on May 24

• You can’t fight or quarrel.
• It was forbidden to carry out sowing work on this day.