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Traditional Christmas Carols in Slavonic (Old Russian)

A beautiful medley of Christmas Carols sung in Church Slavonic by the Holy Trinity Russian Orthodox Church Choir, Christmas Day 2011. Church Slavonic is a rich and vibrant part of Orthodox heritage. All Slavic Orthodox Churches were influenced by Slavonic. The rich hymnography and music are imbued with its rhythm and meter and the resultant spiritual majesty and splendor. The Origin of Church Slavonic: Saints Cyril and Methodius were missionaries and linguists, known as the "Apostles to the Slavs". They were brothers and members of a noble family of Thessaloniki. St. Cyril (actually known as Constantine until shortly before his death when he was tonsured a monk) was librarian of the great cathedral of Hagia Sophia in Constantinople until 860, when he resigned to join St. Methodius, the abbot of a Greek monastery, in missionary journeys to the Khazars and the Bulgarians. In 862, Emperor Michael III sent them to Moravia, where they taught and celebrated the liturgy in the Slavonic vernacular, now known as Old Church Slavonic. To translate the Bible into this previously unwritten language, the brothers constructed a script for Slavonic known today as glagolithic. Glagolithic is considered by some as the precursor of Cyrillic. The Cyrillic alphabet used in modern Slavic languages is often attributed to St. Cyril.