Svätí slovanskí sedmopočetníci. Bratislava: Slovenský komitét slavistov – Slavistický ústav Jána Stanislava SAV, 2010. 247 strán. (ISBN 978-80-89489-02-2.) (original) (raw)

The seven holy Slavonic saints (Sts. Cyril, Methodius, Gorazd, Clement, Nahum, Angelar and Savva). The monograph examines the question of how this group came into being and how the common veneration of this group began. The book also deals with the biographies and work of individual saints from the group of seven Slavonic saints. It provides a synthetic survey of sources, basic biographical data and summarize our knowledge of the work and activity of the individual disciples of Sts. Cyril and Methodius. Attention is also paid to the questions of their veneration and the fate of their relics. A review of different sources briefly presents the origin of each source, gives information about the oldest available text, the number of preserved manuscripts and the most important printed editions. We considered it to be important to give a more detailed description of the liturgical situation in the 9th and 10th century, as a background of the spiritual and intellectual formation, work and activity of the holy seven Slavonic saints.