Visiting Prague

Statue of St. Cyril and St. Methodius was created between 1928 and 1939 by Karel Dvořák at the peak of Czechoslovakia’s period of National Awakening, following independence and erected by the Ministry of education and it is now in Prague. The statue depicts It portrays Catholic missionaries saints introducing Christianity to the Slavs. The Statue of St. Cyril and St. Methodius was placed instead of the original statue of St. Ignatius, designed by Ferdinand Brokoff in 1711, and displaced by the floods of 1890 and can now be found in the Prague Lapidarium. Saints Cyril and Methodius were two Byzantine Macedonian brothers born in Thessaloniki in the 9th century who brought both Christianity and the Cyrillic alphabet to the Czech lands, Great Moravia and Pannonia and that’s why considered as national heroes to this day. The Cyrillic alphabet which brothers created was based on the Glagolitic alphabet, and now is widely used in a number of Slavic and other languages. Both Cyril and St. Methodius are respected in the Eastern Orthodox Church as saints with the title of “Equals to the Apostles”.

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