The British Isles and Great Moravia in the early middle ages
Adolf Provazník
The work of the Irish or Iro-Scottish missioneries on continent Europe in sixth to eighth centuries is well known. An attempt made here show how characteristic design early Celtic churches found its way partly via Bavaria, where for example Irishman Virgil became bishop Salzburg mid-eight century, into Moravia, along with other cultural influences, a century so before well-known Christianizing mission launched that area from Byzantium by two brothers SS Cyril and Methodius, 863.
Journal of Medieval History