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ŚLADY MISJI METODIAŃSKIEJ NA ZIEMIACH POLSKICH

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The controversy around Saints Cyril and Methodius’s mission to the historic Polish lands has remained an issue of heated discussions. Many new implications regarding the mission came to light in perspective of the 1050th anniversary of Poland’s Christianization. In literature, the beginnings of Christianity are convergent in time with the event of the baptism of Mieszko I (Czech influence) and the Christianization in a wider scope (influence of Longobard monks). In most available studies the sources which legitimise non-Latin beginnings of Polish Christianity are sometimes intentionally excluded. There is no mention of the Slavic rituals on Polish grounds before 966. The current state of knowledge confirms Methodian mission among the tribes of the Vistulans and the Polans (it concerns people who lived in the original lands in the Vistula basin). This article, therefore, discusses the scope of mission of both Byzantine Christian theologians in Southern Poland.
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Saint Methodius, a native of Thessalonica, was not only one of the leading Christian missionaries and diplomats of the 9th century, but also an active traveller. He undertook several missionary and diplomatic journeys, which are mentioned in contemporary sources. The paper analyses his journeys to the Khazars, Great Moravia, Rome and finally in 881 to Byzantium. We trace the possible routes and the times it would have taken for Methodius to complete the journeys.
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According to some sources, Saint Methodius has been entombed in the church in the town called Kana-/Kata-/Ka-onna, situated on the river of the same name. The reconstruction of this hypothetical fact is based on the old texts and historical and onomastic assumptions. If one accepts the fact, then, there has been only one river of this name in the former Moravia region. Its present Slavic name is Kadan, possibly derived from Non-Slavic, Celtic Kadona (Kadonna) 'Holy River' (in the same way as Slavic katan comes from Hungarian katona). This river is located near Nitra, the assumed seat of king Svatopluk I., and it flows through the following towns: Stitare, Pohranice, Lapas, Golianovo, one of which should have been the town of Kadan. The name Pohranice must be derived form the ethnonym Pograni 'the Pograns', i.e. the inhabitants of the basin of Gran (Hron). It has been these Pograns who could have changed the name of the town and the name of the river, which was called Kadan as well as Pogran River. Consequently, Saint Methodius could have been entombed in the church in Pohranice, which is one of the oldest in the former Moravia region, being mentioned in 1075.
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