IN HONOR OF SAINT CLEMENT OF OHRID’S PASSING (916-2016) (THE FOUNDING FATHER OF SLAVIC CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION IN MACEDONIA) Cover Image

ПО ПОВОД 1100 ГОДИНИ ОД УПОКОЈУВАЊЕТО НА СВЕТИ КЛИМЕНТ ОХРИДСКИ (†916 – 2016) (Втемелувач на словенската цивилизација и култура во Македонија)
IN HONOR OF SAINT CLEMENT OF OHRID’S PASSING (916-2016) (THE FOUNDING FATHER OF SLAVIC CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION IN MACEDONIA)

Author(s): Ilija Velev
Subject(s): History, Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts
Published by: Институт за македонска литература
Keywords: Saint Clement of Ohrid, Slavic culture and civilization; the Ohrid Literary School; Macedonian spiritual and cultural traditions

Summary/Abstract: This year, 2016, marks the 1100 anniversary of the passing of Saint Clement of Ohrid, and with that, a significant jubilee in the Macedonian (and the rest of the Slavic world) spiritual, cultural, and academic world. Saint Clement is the most renown student and disciple of Saints Cyril and Methodius, and together with Saint Naum of Ohrid, he continued their legacy in regards to the Slavic literacy and enlightenment; however, within Macedonian cultural memory, he is mostly regarded as the founder of the Ohird Literary School. Within a cultural and historic context, it should be noted that had Saints Clement and Naum failed to follow in their teachers’ footsteps, the success of the Slavic religious, literary, and cultural traditions would have been postponed for centuries later. Our research suggests that the establishment of the Ohrid Literary School helped encircle the process of merging the protocultural classic Macedonian genesis and the lived forms of Slavic civilization found in Macedonia. In fact, the aforementioned Saint Clement’s tradition in Macedonia had begun manifesting its own Slavic self-awareness and self-identification in terms of the Macedonian Slavic identity. Henceforth, our collective civilizational consciousness relates our understanding that we are a Slavic people, with Slavic spiritual, literary, and cultural traditions

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 67
  • Page Range: 9-28
  • Page Count: 20
  • Language: English, Macedonian