RELICS OF ST CONSTANTINE-CYRIL AND THE JUBILEE YEAR OF 1963.

The year 1963 was even celebrated as a Cyrillo-Methodian jubilee in Rome where Christians commemorated the arrival of SS Constantine-Cyril and Methodius to Great Moravia. However, research on the relics of St Constantine-Cyril, which were originally stored in the Basilica of St Clement where the saint was buried in 869, had started three years earlier. The relics were transferred after 1798 and their fate has been unclear ever since. They were discovered in Recanati in the summer of 1963 in the palace of the Antici-Mattei family by Leonard Boyle, a Dominican from the Basilica of St Clement, and they were transferred to Rome in October. Finally, Pope Paul VI placed the relics of St Constantine-Cyril in the Basilica of St Clement on November 17, 1963. This event helped to strengthen the cult of this saint directly in Rome. Several other institutions and individuals acquired the relics of the younger of the Thessalonian Brothers in 1963. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]