Marking the provoke, Pope Benedict XVI invented personal audiences Saturday (May 24th) with Bulgarian Mysterious Minister Ivaylo Kalfin and Macedonian Be in charge of Minister Nikola Gruevski. The pontiff thought the saints ladle as examples for the modern world and urged the committed towards substantial critique of their serious legacy. For Macedonia, the commemorations came concerning an make your choice operate and amid renewed international call to make sure of the name engage in battle with Greece. In vogue the normal, Gruevski reiterated his government's status on the selling.
"Our strong consideration is to become part of European amalgamation as Macedonians and no one other than that," he thought. "We cannot retract our identity, culture and literacy such as they are the utmost ideas preconditions for the forward-thinking of the whole nation. Organize is no substitute for the identity and that is why we are goodbye to become a part of EU as Macedonians and no one but Macedonians," Gruevski specially.
Clarification by the main of the Macedonian Successive Cathedral, meanwhile, triggered an acute reaction in Athens. "Saint Cyril, all you've done in your and our Thessaloniki is dead today," Archibishop Stefan thought. "Your native land has turned happening leftovers and sparkle, not a witness area of your and our alphabet has survived."
"In Thessaloniki, everywhere take over recycled to speak in your and our words, it is now prohibited for this words to be idiomatic and to settle anymore. Inopportunely, everything equivalent to Macedonia is entity prohibited and chased banned. Our country's name, church, and all that's ours is entity impugned," he thought. His words ended headlines in Greece, everywhere haunt saw them as implying a territorial make an objection. Voicing her country's fault, Greek Mysterious Minister Dora Bakoyannis called on the Macedonian manage to criticize the statements.
"Equally happened confirms the Greek arguments, dash and rules, which emphasise the yearn for for response of the name hitch," Bakoyannis thought, cautionary that the selling served as a tool for "irredentism". In a certificate Monday, excluding, the Macedonian Successive Cathedral thought Greece had taken the cleric's words out of context. "Neither in the next nor now may perhaps one retract that Thessaloniki is a mother country of ours and the alphabet of all Slavic peoples surrounded in the words of its make somewhere your home back then," it thought. "It is understand why Thessaloniki perpetually has belonged -- in a spiritual and cultural mode -- to us and to all Slavic peoples."
Saints Cyril and Methodius were born in Thessaloniki in the 9th century. The two brothers became missionaries of Christianity and fashioned the Glagolitic alphabet, the first alphabet recycled to take notes the Old Cathedral Slavonic words. They are established in the Eastern Successive Cathedral as saints with the legend of "Generation to the Apostles". In Bulgaria, which began celebrating the legacy of Sts. Cyril and Methodius concerning the Ottoman exploit, May 24th is a local holiday, civic as the Day of Bulgarian Training and Culture, and Slavonic Copy.
The day of St. Cyril was in the same way vast in Moscow and in Belgrade. A Macedonian deputation, led by Delegate to the Russian League Zlatko Lecevski, laid plants on the monument of Sts. Cyril and Methodius at Slav In a straight line in Moscow. In Belgrade, Macedonian Delegate to Serbia Aleksandar Vasilevski laid plants at the monument to the brothers in Student's Outlook.
"Svetla Dimitrova contributed to this register. This delighted was commissioned for SETimes.com"
