Ian Hus Memorial Day
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Jan Hus was ordained priest of the Roman Catholic Church in 1401, after he received the title of Bachelor and later Master at the University of Prague. He is.
He preached against the evil caused by the church and thus won popular recognition. He called for reforms in the Church and the restoration of the authority of Scripture as the believer’s sole source of faith and teaching. Hus stated that the foundation of the church was not Peter, but Christ, and that some popes were heretics. Immediately Hus himself was declared a heretic and excommunicated from the church, and all his writings were declared banned. He found refuge outside Prague, where he continued to write, study and preach.
Wycliffe’s main work “On the Church” served as the basis for the development of Huss’ teaching on the universal priesthood for all believers, which asserted that Christ was the only Head of the Church. Therefore, some associate the name of Hus with the beginning of the Reformation, the flowering of which a century later prepared Martin Luther. In 1414, the Pope and Emperor Sigismund promised Jan Hus safety if he came to the Council of Constance and stated his point of view. But the Council, instead of listening to Hus, arrested him, subjected him to a mock trial without the right of defense, and sentenced him to death as a heretic. Before Gus was burned, he was kept in custody for seven months.
" . In the square, the convict was read the sentence, raised to a fire. An imperial marshal jumped to the fire.
"This is the last time I'm talking to you, Jan Hus," the marshal said. Abandon and the Emperor will give you life!
What mistakes should I deny if I do not know them? I call upon the Lord as a witness that I have neither taught nor preached what false witnesses have shown me. The main purpose of my preaching and all my writings was to turn people away from sin. And in this truth, which I preached according to the gospel of Jesus Christ, I want to die joyfully today.
The marshal waved his baton to the executioners. The fire caught fire. The flames licked the feet of Hus, the clothes burned - he sang a psalm. His hair burned, he prayed. Gus was already in flames. The weather was windless, and the smoke rose straight to the clear sky. Once again flashed for a moment an inspired, surrounded by a shining halo face. Then everything was mixed into one burning torch.
It happened on July 6, 1415 in the German city of Konstanz. The burnt body of the philosopher was dismembered, the bones were ground and buried, the heart was pierced with a stick and burned separately.
The pope broke his promise of the safety of Hus and explained it this way: “No one is obliged to keep the word given to a heretic.” And even a century later, Martin Luther was wary of going to Leipzig, although he had a promise made by the Pope to keep him alive and free.
In Prague, on the Old Town Square, stands a monument erected in 1915. It was established five hundred years after the martyrdom of the founder of the Czech reform movement. A couple of years ago, John Paul II expressed "deep regret" on behalf of the Catholic Church, which burned alive Jan Hus.
According to the Patriarch of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church Jan Schwartz, the proof that the covenant of Jan Hus is alive is that on July 6, in the Prague Chapel of Bethlehem, in which Jan Hus preached his sermons and which symbolically does not belong to any of the churches, people of different faiths gather for a solemn mass.