Relics of Saints Cyril and Methodius with Glass with Reliquary

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Relics of Saints Cyril and Methodius with Glass with Reliquary:
$145.50

Saints Cyril and Methodius, (respectively, born c. 827, Thessalonica, Theme of Thessalonica, Byzantine Empire (now in Greece)—died February 14, 869, Rome; born c. 815, Thessalonica—died April 6, 884, Moravia; feast day for both, February 14 [Roman Catholicism, Anglicanism, Lutheranism] or May 11 [Eastern Orthodoxy]), brothers who, for Christianizing the Danubian Slavs and for influencing the religious and cultural development of all Slavic peoples, received the title “the apostles of the Slavs.”
In 860 Cyril (originally named Constantine), who had gone on a mission to the Arabs and been professor of philosophy at the patriarchal school in Constantinople, worked with Methodius, the abbot of a Greek monastery, for the conversion of the Khazars northeast of the Black Sea. In 862, when Prince Rostislav of Great Moravia asked Constantinople for missionaries, the emperor Michael III and the patriarch Photius named Cyril and Methodius. In 863 they started their work among the Slavs, using Slavonic in the liturgy. They translated the Bible into the language later known as Old Church Slavonic (or Old Bulgarian) and invented the Glagolitic alphabet, a Slavic alphabet based on Greek characters that in its final Cyrillic form is still in use as the alphabet for modern Russian and a number of other Slavic languages.
The brothers accepted Pope Nicholas I’s invitation to Rome (867) to explain their conflict with the German archbishop of Salzburg and bishop of Passau, who claimed control of the same Slavic territory and who wanted to enforce the exclusive use of the Latin liturgy. Cyril and Methodius arrived in Rome (868), where the new pope, Adrian II, took their side, formally authorizing the use of the Slavic liturgy. When Cyril died, Adrian sent Methodius back to the Slavs as his legate and archbishop of Sirmium.
Methodius’s ecclesiastical province included all of Moravia. When Rostislav’s nephew and successor, Svatopluk, failed to support Methodius, he was tried in 870 by the German clergy, brutally treated, and jailed until liberated by the intervention of Pope John VIII. In 880 Methodius was again summoned to Rome about the Slavic liturgy, obtaining once more papal approval of his use of the vernacular.
When Methodius’s suffragan bishop, Wiching, continued to make trouble by advocating for use of the Latin liturgy, Methodius tried to strengthen his position in the Eastern church by visiting Constantinople in 882. After Methodius’s death, Pope Stephen V (or VI) forbade the use of the Slavonic liturgy. Wiching, as Methodius’s successor, forced the disciples of Cyril and Methodius into exile.
This glass tube reliquary is sealed on both sides with a red wax seal.Measurements of the the glass tube:5.9 inch (15 cm) long diameter of the tube is 1.18 inch (3cm)================Only for Christian devotion.Relic is originally from Belgium.