BIBLICAL CONNECTIONS AND INTERPRETATIVE APPROACH TO THE SPACIOUS LIFE OF CYRIL

In this scientific work point of interest is the spacious biography of Saint Cyril the Philosopher, biblicalconnections and its interpretation. Firstly we present the biographical data of the Thessalonian brothers, Cyril andMethodius and the periodization of the old literature. Research was conducted before a relevant sample of 102respondents from primary, secondary and higher education, i.e. pupils and students. The sources for the data on theactivity of the Brothers and the beginnings of Slavic literacy are presented in a table.Than emphasis is placed ontheextensive biography of Saint Cyril and in terms of the interpretation biblical elements and allusions, insertedtexts,stories and quotes, factography, art pieces, explicit and implicit attributes of St. Cyril, dialogues, disputes andcontroversies are detected. A study visit to the Bigor Monastery by Macedonian Studies students is also presented.In the end photographs from the interpretation of the biography, taken during the studies, of an innovative approachand creative way of processing medieval works, interesting for the modern reader and researcher are inserted. Wemade multimedial video about texts of Bible, about texts od St. Cyril and St. Clement.