1. Saints and Relics

2. Constantin (Cyril) & Method
9th century
East Frankish Empire
Bavaria dominates
Great Moravia
Prince wants to found archbishopric = political independence of the country
asked the Byzantinium Emperor to send missionaries 863
Realm collapsed with the hungarian invasion in 907

3. Constantin (Cyril) & Method
Liturgy in a slavic language
slavonic script – glagolitic
Roman catholicism adopted after their death
Glagolitic Cyrillic

4. Constantin (Cyril) & Method
Baptized Ludmila and Bořivoj

5. St. Wenceslas and the Ottonians
Saxony, Henry the Fowler
Arm of St. Vitus as a dynastic gift

6. Charles IV. as a collectioner of relics

7. Karlštejn

8. Crown of the Kings of Bohemia „the Wenceslas Crown“

9. Crown of the Kings of Bohemia „the Wenceslas Crown“

10. Karlštejn Chapel of the Holy Cross (Rood) Heavenly Jerusalem
Master Theodoric, St. Wenceslas

11. Karlštejn Chapel of the Holy Cross (Rood) Heavenly Jerusalem
Master Theodoric, St. Wenceslas

12. New Town of Prague
Chapel of the Body of Christ, Cattle Market/Dobytčí trh (Karlovo náměstí/ Charles Sq.)

13. New Town of Prague
Chapel of the Body of Christ, Cattle Market/Dobytčí trh (Karlovo náměstí/ Charles Sq.)

19. Emmaus Monastery
Benedictine monastery with Slavonic liturgy

20. St. Prokop Abbot of a benedictine monastery at Sázava, 11th c.
Slavonic liturgy – community replaced by German style benedictines after his death

22. St. Catherine
In his youth, Charles won a seemingly hopeless battle in Italy on her day
Patron saint of the Charles University – wise virgin

24. St. Apollinaire
Early christian bishop in Ravenna: seat of the Emperors

26. Church of St. Charles the Great/ Charlesmagne
Octogonal

27. Church of St. Charles the Great/ Charlesmagne
Octogonal – reference to Aachen, 8th c.
Charles IV crowned the King of Romans in Aachen

28. St. Charles the Great/ Charlesmagne
Charlesmagne´s Aachen chapel designed after the Ravenna model

29. Charlesmagne at Karlštejn – hidden portrait of Charles IV.
Master Theodoric, St. Charlesmagne
Charlesmagne at Karlštejn – hidden portrait of Charles IV.