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From: myers@uwmacc.UUCP (Jeff Myers)
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Subject: Re: Trivia Question: Who was John Hus(14th century Czeck) and...
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> The question I would like answered in more detail than I already know
> is: Who was John Hus (14th century Czeckoslovakia) and what did he
> believe that caused his execution?
> 
> Bob Switzer

John Hus was burned as a heretic.  From the *Anchor Atlas of World History*:

Reform Movements outside the Church

Opposed to the papacy and to the papal Church dominated by the clergy on
nat. and relig. grounds, the Lollards spread in England.  They were
followers of the Oxford professor John Wyclif, who accepted nothing but
the Bible as authority for Christ.  For this reason he translated the
Bible, denounced the hierarchy, celibacy, indulgences and the teaching
of the Eucharist and demanded a nat. church founded on `Christian
poverty'.  His teachings were suppressed in England; taught by the
priest John Hus, they found new adherents in Bohemia.  Hus's martyrdom
and the excommunication of the Hussites caused nat., relig. and soc.
crises for the Czechs.

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