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Cyril and Methodius were two brothers who lived in the 9th century and became the missionaries of Christianity among the Slavic peoples. They are believed to have devised and spread the Glagolitic alphabet, an alphabet used for Slavonic manuscripts before the development of the Cyrillic alphabet that with small modifications is still used in a number of Slavic languages. They also translated the Christian texts for Slavs into the language that is now called Old Church Slavonic and is still used in liturgy by several Eastern Orthodox churches. Both are canonized in Eastern Orthodoxy as "equal to apostles" and were celebrated by the Roman Catholic Church in 1880.

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