Saints Cyril and Methodius Day

The brothers who invented an alphabet so a language could have a Bible.

The feast of Saints Cyril and Methodius on July 5 honors two 9th-century Byzantine brothers who created the Glagolitic alphabet, predecessor of the Cyrillic script now used by over 250 million people to write Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Ukrainian, and dozens of other Slavic languages. Sent as missi