Празникът 11 май
The Holiday of May 11

Summary/Abstract: On May 11, the National Library's holiday, the memory of its patrons St. Cyril and St. Methodius is celebrated. It is well-known why in the modern times the church feast of the two saints divided from the civil and state holiday on May 24, for which the name of Day of Bulgarian Letters and Culture and the Bulgarian Alphabet was recently appropriated. Surprisingly, there is insufficient evidence about when and how the teachers of the Slavs began to be commemorated on 11th of May. Based on reference literature, thе paper represents some of the views on this event and outlines the church celebration of the saint brothers as reflected by the Slavonic manuscripts in the Library collection. At present in only one manuscript of the 18th century was detected the date 11th of May, appointed to the memory of St Methodius.

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