In this connection, when Prince Rastislav of Great Moravia requested Michael III and patriarch Photius of Byzantium for some appointed clerics to evangelise his state (comprising parts of today’s ...

That year the Prince Rastislav of Great Moravia, who sought to assert his independence from the Franks, expelled missionaries of the Roman Church and instead turned to Constantinople for ...

Prince Rastislav of greater Moravia, whom the Orthodox revere as a saint and honor with a feast day May 11. “May it be a token of friendship and goodwill, a memorial of common history and a sign ...