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 | | A few days afterward some of Hus's followers, led by Vok Voksa z Valdštejna, burnt the papal bulls; Hus, they said, should be obeyed rather than the Church, which they considered a fraudulent mob of adulterers and Simonists. |
 | | But it seems clear that Hus’s efforts were predominantly designed to rid the Church of its ethical abuses, rather than a campaign of sweeping theological change. |
 | | In explaining the plight of the average Christian in Bohemia, Hus wrote, “One pays for confession, for mass, for the sacrament, for indulgences, for churching a woman, for a blessing, for burials, for funeral services and prayers. |
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