Proglas (, ) is the foreword to the

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translation of the four

Gospels Gospel originally meant the Christian message (" the gospel"), but in the second century AD the term (, from which the English word originated as a calque) came to be used also for the books in which the message was reported. In this sen ...

. Made between 863 and 867 by Saint Cyril and published in

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, Proglas is considered to be the first poem in literary Old Church Slavonic.

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complete digital scan of ''Proglas''

Translation into modern English and Slovak

Translation into modern Nitra language

Translation into modern Bulgarian

Translation into Interslavic
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