brothers depicted together; Eastern bishops holding up a church; Eastern bishops holding an icon of the Last Judgment[1] Often, Cyril is depicted wearing a monastic habit and Methodius vested as a bishop with omophorion.
在俄罗斯，5月24日是“斯拉夫文学与文化节”（俄语：День славянской письменности и культуры），庆祝斯拉夫文学、文化与字母。
在保加利亚，人们在5月24日纪念基里尔与美多德，节日的正式名称为“保加利亚教育、文化、和斯拉夫文学日”（保加利亚语：Ден на българската просвета и култура и на славянската писменост），一个用来纪念保加利亚文化、文学、与基里尔字母的节日。它被人们称为“字母、文化和教育节”（保加利亚语：Ден на азбуката, културата и просвещението）。基里尔与美多德被看成是保加利亚国家图书馆的保护人。保加利亚国家图书馆前面就有他们的纪念馆。
在马其顿，人们在5月24日纪念基里尔与美多德，节日的名称为“圣基里尔和圣美多德日”（马其顿语：Св. Кирил и Методиј, Ден на словенските просветители）。
在捷克，7月5日是“圣基里尔和圣美多德日”（捷克语：Den slovanských věrozvěstů Cyrila a Metoděje）。
在斯洛伐克，7月5日是“圣基里尔和圣美多德日”（斯洛伐克语：Sviatok svätého Cyrila a Metoda）。[17]
Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05, s.v. "Cyril and Methodius, Saints"; Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica Incorporated, Warren E. Preece - 1972, p.846, s.v., "Cyril and Methodius, Saints" and "Eastern Orthodoxy, Missions ancient and modern"; Encyclopedia of World Cultures, David H. Levinson, 1991, p.239, s.v., "Social Science"; Eric M. Meyers, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East, p.151, 1997; Lunt, Slavic Review, June, 1964, p. 216; Roman Jakobson, Crucial problems of Cyrillo-Methodian Studies; Leonid Ivan Strakhovsky, A Handbook of Slavic Studies, p.98; V.Bogdanovich , History of the ancient Serbian literature, Belgrade, 1980, p.119
The Columbia Encyclopaedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05, O.Ed. Saints Cyril and Methodius "Cyril and Methodius, Saints) 869 and 884, respectively, “Greek missionaries, brothers, called Apostles to the Slavs and fathers of Slavonic literature."
Encyclopedia Britannica, Major alphabets of the world, Cyrillic and Glagolitic alphabets, 2008, O.Ed. "The two early Slavic alphabets, the Cyrillic and the Glagolitic, were invented by St. Cyril, or Constantine (c. 827–869), and St. Methodius (c. 825–884). These men were Greeks from Thessaloniki who became apostles to the southern Slavs, whom they converted to Christianity."
Cizevskij, Dmitrij; Zenkovsky, Serge A.; Porter, Richard E. Comparative History of Slavic Literatures. Vanderbilt University Press. : vi. ISBN 0-8265-1371-9. "Two Greek brothers from Salonika, Constantine who later became a monk and took the name Cyril and Methodius.
The illustrated guide to the Bible. New York: Oxford University Press. 1998: 14. ISBN 0-19-521462-5. In Eastern Europe, the first translations of the Bible into the Slavoruic languages were made by the Greek missionaries Cyril and Methodius in the 860s
Smalley, William Allen. Translation as mission: Bible translation in the modern missionary movement. Macon, Ga.: Mercer. 1991: 25. ISBN 978-0-86554-389-8. The most important instance where translation and the beginning church did coincide closely was in Slavonic under the brothers Cyril, Methodius, with the Bible completed by A.D. 880 This was a missionary translation but unusual again (from a modern point of view) because not a translation into the dialect spoken where the missionaries were The brothers were Greeks who had been brought up in Macedonia,
Kazhdan, Alexander P. The Oxford dictionary of Byzantium. New York: Oxford University Press. 1991: 507. ISBN 0-19-504652-8. Constantine (Cyril) and his brother Methodius were the sons of the droungarios Leo and Maria, who may have been a Slav.
Todd B. Krause; Jonathan Slocum. Old Church Slavonic Online Lesson 3. Linguistics Research Center at UT Austin. [2010-10-31]. （原始内容存档于2010-10-02）. 引文使用过时参数coauthors (帮助)
Paul Cubberley (1996) "The Slavic Alphabets" and later finalized and spread by disciples Kliment and Naum in Ohrid and Preslav schools of Tsar Boris' Bulgaria. In Daniels and Bright, eds. The World's Writing Systems. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-507993-0.
