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Rastislav of Moravia

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Life
[[Image:Prince Rastislav.JPG|right|thumb|Saint Rastislav of Moravia.]][[Image:11 may rostislav prince of great moravia.jpg|right|thumb|Saint Rastislav of Moravia.]]Our father among the saints and [[confessor]] '''Rastislav''' ("Rastic", in modern [[Czech language|Czech]] ''Rostislav'') of Moravia was the second prince of Great Moravia between 846 and 870. He was [[glorification|canonized]] in October 1994 by the [[Church of the Czech Lands and Slovakia|Czech and Slovak Orthodox Church]]. His [[feast day]] is [[May 11]] /24.
==Life==
After Mojmír's death in 846 Rastislav was designated by Eastern Francia king Louis the German to become the head of Great Moravia. He assumed that Rastislav will cooperate with him just as his predecessor had. After internal consolidation Rastislav tried to restrict polititical influence of Eastern Francia. In 855 Great Moravia was attacked by Louis's army. However, the attack was not successful.
Eastern Francia was spreading it's influence through Frankish [[priest]]s, who preached in Latin so in 862 Rastislav asked Byzantine emperor Michael III to send a [[bishop]] and [[teachers]], who would bring the [[EvangeliumGospel]] to the Slavic peoples in their own language. The emperor decided to send two wisdoms - wise men, the brothers [[Cyril and Methodius|Cyril]] and [[Cyril and Methodius|Methodius]] who laid the foundation of the Slavonic script (Glagolitic alphabet), and thus of Slavonic literature.
In 864 Louis the German again attacked Rastislav. This time successfully. Rastislav had was forced to recognize the supremacy of the Eastern Frankish Realm over his kingdom.
In 870 after a growing disagreement between Rastislav and his nephew Svatopluk, the latter made a deal with Carloman of Bavaria (Louis's son) to exchange Rastislav for the promise that he will rule Great Moravia. Louis the German blinded Rastislav and jailed him in one of Bavarian monasteries, where he died in that same year.
==The origin of his name==
[[Wikipedia:Rastislav]]
 
==External Link==
*[http://www.comeandseeicons.com/groups/zcj05.htm Icon and Story of Ss. Ratislav and Boleslav]
 
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