Dzieło misyjne Cyryla i Metodego na Rusi-Ukrainie
In 988, prince Volodymyr took up the great epochal challenges of faith and grace,making the salvifi c secret of the Baptism of the Ruthenians and other Slav peoples inhabitingthe vast lands of Kievan Rus.This is the most important breakthrough moment of the act of conversion and theprocess of Christianization, opening the Christian epoch throughout Russia and includingKievan Rus in the civilization of countries of the early Middle Ages.It is hard to overestimate the importance of these „plural” monasteries, council schoolsand libraries for the further development of Kievan Rus. After all, they were the drivingforce of the missionary work of Cyril and Methodius, they promoted and disseminated thereligion and Christian principles of life and co-existence, created works conducive to theformation of Rusin’s personality of „new times” and at the same time satisfying the wholeof his religious, social and cultural needs.The missionary work of Cyril and Methodius in Rus – Ukraine gave Kyiv Christianitythe hallmarks of universality, thus opening up the possibility of bringing togetherand playing the role of a bridge between Christian East and West and drawing a fullhand on the heritage of civilization and culture. Literature, art and science of both theEast and the West. It is no coincidence, therefore, that Kiev fulfi lled an honorable role of„the mother of Ruthenian cities,” and at the same time as Constantinople was perceivedas the „New Jerusalem”. It is the fruit of the idea of the apostolicity of Kiev realized by the rulers of Rus-Ukraine for over two centuries, which experienced its „Golden Age”of development.
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