A COSMOPOLITAN FAMILY






By Michael de V. Merriman



Based on the many hours of his own work

plus the encouragement, support, resources

and tea provided by family and friendsS





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Apendix 2

Cyril and the Cyrillic Script


827 — 869 A.D.,Cyril felt that he had a mission to the Slavs Cyril, "Apostle of the Slavs, his brother Methodius. Both brothers were born in Macedonia amongst whom he worked with base don Constantinople. He was determined to Cyril became a Byzantine Pope to writing and gave them a modified form of the Greek reduce the Slavonic tongue known as the Cyrillic Script. Alphabet, which came to be teachings of Clement, one of the early Church fathers, Cyril was a follower of the Clement's teaching around one of the aspects of who lived mostly at Alexandria.

of the Greek language and literature to the Latin

350 A.D. was the superiority was a kind of stepping of the old Greek philosophy In his view, the classics. Best later in Holy Scripture.

preparation for the fullness of truth revealed stone world of the Slav countries was of an effective written language to the Cyril's gfti Cyril.

Importance. He was later known as St of great the USSR, Bulgaria, Romania The Cyrillic Script is still in common use in Yugoslavia, and elsewhere.


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