Whether you know him as the namesake of Sofia University, the modifier of the Cyrillic alphabet or the man who lent his name to the now-resort town in Macedonia, Saint Kliment Ohridski played a significant role in the academic and intellectual world of the Balkans of the ninth and 10th centuries. He is celebrated annually on November 25.

And just a few days before November 25 2008, it was reported in Bulgarian press that various remains of Saint Clement of Ohrid were being transferred from Macedonia to Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

The relics, a gift of the Macedonian Orthodox Church, had been housed in the Sveti Pantelejmon Monastery near Ohrid.

They were received by representatives of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, headed by the Plovdiv metropolitan Nikolai, in a ceremony at Stefan Stambolov Square on November 24 2008. Timotej, the metropolitan of Ohrid, delivered the relics.

The final destination was Sveti Marina Church, newly built, where Bulgarian and Macedonian church leaders convened. Saint Kliment is the patron of the Sveti Marina church.

It also happens that on November 24, albeit in 1888, Sofia University St Kliment Ohridski was founded, leading to joyous celebrations 120 years later.

The gala evening on November 24 2008 expected to see, according to Gradski Vestnik, a free daily, National Library director Boryana Hristova, Rousse metropolitan Neofit, Sofia mayor Boiko Borissov, Speaker of Parliament Georgi Pirinski, Bulgarian President Georgi Purvanov, Prime Minister Sergei Stanishev, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences director Nikola Subotinov, Culture Minister Stefan Danailov and Education Minister Daniel Vulchev congratulate the university parade along the route to its destination of National Theatre Ivan Vazov.