Jan Hus
Czech theologian, philosopher and preacher (1369-1415)
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Lived 1370–1415, aged 45
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A Czech priest who challenged the Catholic Church's sale of salvation, then watched that promise of safe conduct turn into a death sentence. His execution in 1415 sparked a religious war that held off five papal crusades.
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Jan Hus was ordained a Catholic priest around the turn of the 15th century and rose to become master, dean, and rector at Prague's Charles University between 1409 and 1410. He began preaching against the Church's practices in Bohemia—its ecclesiology, simony, the Eucharist—and drew excommunication from Pope Alexander V, though he kept preaching anyway. When he condemned Antipope John XXIII for selling indulgences, the sentence was enforced, and he spent two years in exile. The Council of Constance summoned him in 1415 to answer for the dissension; he went under safe conduct, was arrested on ar…
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