Zikmund jan hus biography

The quiet and scholarly Prague canon Matej criticized the cult of saints and their relics, and anticipated the Hussites in his advocacy of communion in both kinds (sub utraque specie; i.e., with both bread and wine) for laity as well as priests. Tomas Stitny was a southern Bohemian squire who sought to popularize Milic's ideas. His metier was not theology but books of practical moral education, and he was no rebel. But he was a layman writing about religious affairs, and he wrote, moreover, in Czech. Both, from the point of view of the Church, were threatening transgressions. Around the same time, in the s to s, the Bible was first translated into the Czech vernacular.

Jan Hus himself was born around in Husinec in southern Bohemia. He studied at Prague university, becoming a master of arts in and lecturing there from , the same year he was ordained a priest. From he began to preach in Prague's Bethlehem Chapel, a church in the Old Town [Stare mesto] founded in expressly for the

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John Hus: A Biography

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Contents
Chapter I. Hus&#; Environment and His Predecessors in Reform
Chapter II. The Young Hus
Chapter II. The Early Years of Hus’ Ministry
Chapter IV. Zbyněk&#;s motstånd to Reform
Chapter V. The Struggle Over Indulgences
Chapter VI. Hus in Exile
Chapter VII. The Principal Czech Writings of Hus
Chapter VIII. At the Council of Constance, I
Chapter IX. At the Council of Constance II
Chapter X. Epilogue
Selected Bibliography
Index

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Jan Hus ( film)

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Jan Hus is a Czechoslovak film about Jan Hus, an early Christian reformer. It is the first part of the "Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy", one of the most famous works of Otakar Vávra, completed with Jan Žižka () and Against All ().^[2]

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The opening part is set in It portrays the suffering of the poor working on the Týn Temple in Prague. It shows their struggles with rich townspeople and stingy church dignitaries collecting indulgences. Publicly criticizing the Catholic Church, Jan Hus opposes the sale of indulgences in his sermons in the Bethlehem Chapel. In addition to crowds of poor Praguers, his services are attended by Queen Žofia, who defends Hus before King Wenceslas. The ailing king, who is being pressured by the Pope and his brother Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund because of Hus's sermons, prefers to have fun rather than politics and worries.

The bull of Pope John XXIII. arrives in Prague. It is about further collection