Word: methodius
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...History and of Women's Studies Olwen Hufton and Muriel Snowden '38. And the Alpha chapter elected eight men: William V. Binger '38, Michael R. Dilland '63, Avram J. Goldberg '51, John C. Harkness '38, Smith Professor of the French and Spanish Languages and Literatures Juan Marichal, Bishop Methodius, Thomas W. Rush '63 and Simic...
...religious orders and all but abolished religious education. Determined to strengthen the church's position and that of its estimated 106 million followers in the Soviet satellites, Pope John Paul II has often bluntly denounced antireligious acts. Last week the Pope issued a 47-page encyclical honoring Cyril and Methodius, two 9th century saints who were missionaries to the Slavs. In it the first Slavic Pontiff made a plea for freedom of worship in Eastern Europe. Praying to God on behalf of the Slavs, he declared, "May they follow, in conformity with their own conscience, the voice of your call...
...epistle, the fourth of John Paul's papacy, is titled Slavorum Apostoli (Apostles of the Slavs), and traces the evangelistic careers of the Greek- born brothers Methodius and Cyril on the 1,100th anniversary of their apostolates. In extolling the lives of Cyril and Methodius, John Paul referred to them as a "spiritual bridge between the Eastern and Western traditions." The two saints, he said, provide a model for the cultural and religious unity of Europe, a favorite theme of this pontificate...
...persecutions, but his comment on the problems that beset the saints can be read as an allusion to the current trials of Catholicism in East bloc states. The Pope also appeared to be making a veiled reference to Soviet domination of Eastern Europe when he wrote that Cyril and Methodius "took as their own the difficulties and problems inevitable for peoples who were defending their own identity against the military and cultural pressure of the new Romano-Germanic Empire...
...state- controlled paper, Katolicke Noviny, lauded John Paul as the "untiring hero of international detente." The seeming thaw in East bloc-Vatican relations was not in evidence last year when the Czechoslovak government refused to permit John Paul to enter the country and lead last weekend's ceremonies for Methodius. In a surprise move, however, the Prague government later gave permission for the Vatican's Secretary of State, Agostino Cardinal Casaroli, to attend instead...