For the Macedonians, one of the most important events that greatly changed and influenced the course of history in Macedonia was the initial encounter and the subsequent symbiosis between the last descendants of the ancient Macedonians and the Slav people who had gradually been populating and colonising the ethnic territory of ancient Macedonia. Certainly, the Slav tribes coming to Macedonia did not find a desolate wasteland, but one whose people had a unique history and a tradition of civilisation and glory. "Built on the foundations of the Byzantine culture, the Slavonic one was deeply permeated with Christianity. It is well known that Christianity had been the psychological and ideological basis of the entire social and political life of Byzantium.... The Slavs of Macedonia were the first Slav tribes to come to a land suffused with an ancient Christian cultural inheritance.... Our ancestors here gradually absorbed the benefits of the Christianised ancient culture. Living among Christians, they could not stay away from the new religion, even though they had not abandoned the old one."

The enlightening mission of the Thessalonian brothers is one of the major events in the history of the Slav people.... And now that we are here, let us quote an effective metaphorical description of the Slavonic alphabet: "The ingenious invention of Constantine, or Cyril, the first Slavonic alphabet, was called Glagolitic because its miraculous signs could speak (Old Slav. ‘glagolati' – to speak). Comprising sacred Christian symbols, that alphabet was intended for visual gospel preaching."

THE FOURTH LITERARY AND LITURGY LANGUAGE IN EUROPE

The firm principle imposed by Rome and Byzantium through their dogmatic authorisation of only three world languages: Greek, Latin and Hebrew. The argument in favour of that dogma was that "those were the three languages in which Pilate ordered the Lord's cross to be inscribed. Cyril's initiative in 863 to start preaching in a fourth language, Slavonic, represents an intellectual and political turn of events in Europe. It is not an exaggeration to say that Cyril and Methodius's achievement was the first defiance of continental scope against the trilingual dogma.

The result and the inference is clear: chronologically the fourth literary language in Europe, the language used by Cyril and Methodius was the first new language of the era introduced into European spiritual life.... In its form and its historical direction, the blow delivered to the trilingual dogma by Cyril and Methodius foreshadowed the successive struggles of John Ball, Thomas Munzer, Martin Luther, Jan Hus, and the humanists."

Although still considered "holy languages," Latin and Greek were "dead and abstract" at that time and had performed their civilising and progressive role in antiquity; "in the Middle Ages they still played a significant part in university education. However, these languages were not known to the newly formed European nations, but as well as to the ordinary people, and did not meet their social needs. They were more of a religious mystery than a social instrument. "

That's why it should be surprising why the Macedonians cannot be indifferent to and cannot help being proud of the fact that "the language of their ancestors was unique in its humanist content in 9th century Europe," that the language of their ancestors was introduced as a living language, the language of a new literature. The Macedonians cannot help being proud of this fact, knowing that the Scriptures that had been translated into Old French at the turn of the 12th century were publicly burned in the name of trilingual obscurantism at the order of Pope Innocent III; that Wycliffe translated the Bible into English in the 14th century, that Jan Hus preached in spoken Czech and Martin Luther translated the Bible into German at the beginning of the 15th century! How many centuries earlier had the holy books been translated into Old Slavonic, based on the language of the Macedonian Slavs in the region of Thessalonica

Republic of Macedonia cherishes its rich cultural hesitate and cannot be indifferent before the fact that Christianity in Macedonia grew into an official public religion in the time of King Samoil's Empire, and the Ohrid Archbishopric into the Ohrid Patriarchate! In other words, we cannot be indifferent to the fact that "the historian has put the name of Ohrid next to those of Rome and Byzantium," calling them "the three capitals of culture