Public holidays · 2028
Saints Cyril and Methodius Day falls on Wednesday, 5 July 2028 in Czechia in 2028.
A public holiday across Czechia: most employees have the day off.
In 2028 it falls on a Wednesday, a working day.
Fixed date: it is on the same day of the year every year (5 Jul).
Saturday and Sunday · A public holiday does not always close every business. Essential services, shops and some industries keep working, and pay rules differ by country and contract.
Saints Cyril and Methodius were brothers from Thessaloniki in the Byzantine Empire who became missionaries to the Slavs in the ninth century. Cyril is credited with creating the Glagolitic alphabet, the oldest known Slavic script, and the brothers translated the liturgy and parts of the Bible into Old Church Slavonic, which laid the foundation of Slavic literature. The Cyrillic script was developed later, traditionally by their disciples in Bulgaria. Both are venerated in the Catholic and Orthodox churches.
In 863 they went to Great Moravia, a state covering parts of today's Czech Republic and Slovakia, at the request of its ruler Rastislav. They are honoured as the apostles of the Slavs, and in 1980 Pope John Paul II named them co-patrons of Europe alongside Saint Benedict. The day is a public holiday in the Czech Republic and Slovakia and, on 24 May, in North Macedonia and Bulgaria, where it also celebrates the Slavic alphabet, education and culture. Festivals, folk music and church services mark the day, particularly at Velehrad in Moravia, a main place of the brothers' memory.
Everywhere in Czechia.
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A public holiday across Czechia: most employees have the day off.
Wednesday, 5 July 2028.