Kyrillos & Methodios – Enlighteners of the Slavs

1942, In Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, a group of resistance fighters seeks sanctuary in an Orthodox church. They have just assassinated Reinhard Heydrich, the “Butcher of Prague”. Τhey are arrested and executed. But how did an Orthodox church come to stand at the heart of Europe, in the first place? The answer lies twelve centuries earlier, in the story of two brothers from Thessaloniki, Cyril and Methodius, and their disciples, who brought Christianity to the Slavs and created the Cyrillic alphabet. Their influence spread over many nations, contributing decisively to the course of European history.