Tjekkiet: I dag, den 6. juli, er en helligdag, dog ikke i Danmark og ej heller i Tyskland, men i Tjekkiet. Det var nemlig på denne dag for 610 år siden, at den tjekkiske reformator – nogle ville ...

Jan Hus, Czech theologian and early church reformer, was burned at the stake on July 6, 1415, at the Council of Konstanz. Today, a modest but very nice museum in the German city preserves his ...

Before Martin Luther, there was Jan Hus, a Czech firebrand whose death at the stake sparked off a fire that five Crusades could not extinguish. In the fourteenth century, creaking beneath plague, ...

"We'll cook his goose." Believe it or not, that phrase originated as a reference to a man whose last name means (in his native language, Czech) "goose" - John Hus. He was literally cooked - burned at ...

Hus walked between two guards, his hands bound in front of him with a short length of rope. He wore the same dark gown he had ...

On July 6, Czechs mark the 609th anniversary of the death of Jan Hus, a 15th-century priest, religious thinker, and early church reformer who was burned at the stake in the German city of Constance in ...

Jan Hus is most often remembered for his execution, which happened July 6, 1415. The date is now a national holiday in the Czech Republic. The focus on his execution for heresy, though, tends to ...

Before Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of the church in Wittenburg, Germany, before Gutenberg’s printing press, and even before the Protestant Reformation, opposition to the theology ...

Over 500 years after the tragic event, Pope John Paul II came to the homeland of Jan Hus and apologized for the cruel death inflicted on him (see pg. 4). Here is the story behind that sad yet ...

Today the Czech Republic commemorates the life and of Jan Hus, the somewhat enigmatic reformer who left an indelible mark on Czech history and identity. Hus is widely remembered as a remarkable figure ...

Numerous historical figures have lived fairly uneventful lives, but have been known for one defining event. Jan Hus does not fit into this category. From his early years until his untimely death in ...

Though lengthy volumes have been written about Christian history in the Czech lands, the casual observer really only needs two words to understand the striking ambivalence that Catholicism often ...