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  Huss, John - MSN Encarta
Huss, John or Hus, Jan (1369-1415), Bohemian religious reformer, whose efforts to reform the Church anticipated the Protestant Reformation.
Huss was born in Husinec, in southern Bohemia (now the Czech Republic), and was educated at the University of Prague, receiving his MA degree in 1396.
In 1414 Huss was summoned to appear at the Council of Constance, which had been convened to resolve the schism in the Church and to suppress heresy.
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 John Huss — Part 2 — The Trial - August 1994
John was accused of having cleared his way to the papal chair by the murder of his predecessor, Alexander V; and he lived in continual fear of himself being removed by the same dreadful means by which he had ascended it.
John, on the other hand, pretended to be quite cordial in calling the Council, while secretly he was determined to dissolve it as quickly as possible should he find it unfriendly to himself.
John, faced with the charges that were drawn up against him, promised to abdicate; but recovering, he was more determined than ever to maintain his cause and, in stealth, fled the city.
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 Wartburg Speaks: John Huss of Bohemia
John Huss was born of Czech parents, 1369, at Husinec in Southern Bohemia.
Huss, a vigorous advocate of the use of the Czech, was the recognized head of the national movement at the university, and chosen first rector under the new régime.
Huss was still writing that he abhorred the errors ascribed to him, but the king could not countenance the flagrant indignity shown to the papal bulls, and had three men of humble position executed, Martin, John and Stanislaus.
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 Lois Perkins Chapel | John Huss
The ministry of John Huss at Bethlehem Chapel in the city of Prague influenced his point of view and brought him in contact with the writings of John Wycliffe.
Huss continued preaching in the city and received a popular welcome wherever he went until the Council of Constance in 1415 when he was summoned to defend himself.
The left side border symbols on the Huss window, numbered from top to bottom, are 1: a Latin cross, the type of cross upon which Christ was crucified, representing the effective love of God as revealed in the death of Christ for the salvation of mankind; 2.
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 Huss, John. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
In 1408 the archbishop and the university opposed the king’s scheme to have Bohemia observe neutrality between the rival popes Gregory XII and Benedict XIII (Pedro de Luna).
Wenceslaus stood by Huss and in 1411 brought about a truce, but the fight flared up again in 1412, when Huss openly denounced the bulls of the antipope John XXIII against King Lancelot of Naples and preached against indulgences.
Huss denied some of the beliefs attributed to him; others he refused to modify unless convinced of their error.
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 John Huss - July 1994
The Reformation that began in England as the result of the teachings of John Wycliffe was not restricted to England.
John Huss was born in 1373 in the village of Hussinetz on the edge of the Bohemian Forest.
As Huss contemplated the frightful condition of society and the church, he was led to study more deeply the Bible and the writings of the early church fathers.
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 Biography of John Huss   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Huss had no difficulty in recognizing the man, his executioner; and in the place to which he had now been conducted, the spot on which he was to die.
Huss was first tied round the middle with cords.
Huss was judged an heretic because he believed in the authority of the Bible above the pope and Canon Law.
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 John Huss and the Hussites
John Huss was born in 1369 at the town of Husinetz in the southern part of Bohemia.
Huss was cited to answer before that court, and on his failure to appear incurred the papal excommunication.
John Gerson, before the assembling of the council, was among the most emphatic in his denunciations of Huss.
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 SoundClick artist: John Huss - Band page with free MP3 music downloads on SoundClick
John Huss (Jan Hus) was born in Bohemia (now part of the Czech Republic) in about 1371.
Huss denounced this restriction as contrary to Holy Scripture and to the ancient tradition of the Church.
Huss was horrified at the idea of selling spiritual benefits to finance a war between two claimants to the title "Servant of the Servants of God," and said so.
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 John Huss biography
In 1411 Pope John XXIII proclaimed a crusade against King Ladislas of Naples and promised indulgences to the volunteers.
Huss the next year gave out a university debate upon the question of indulgences, which only widened the breach between himself and the university authorities and the clergy.
The death of Huss caused sorrow and indignation throughout Bohemia and led to the so-called Hussite War.
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 John Huss   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
John Huss was a Bohemian by birth, born in the village of Hussinetz about the year 1380.
Huss then appealed from this unjust sentence to a future council, but without success and, notwithstanding so severe a decree, and an expulsion from his church in Prague, he retired to Hussinetz, where he continued to promulgate the truth, both from the pulpit and with the pen.
Pope John was deposed, and obliged to fly, more than forty crimes being proved against him; among which were, his attempt to poison his predecessor, his being a gamester, a liar, a murderer, an adulterer, and guilty of unnatural offences.
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 Re: John Huss   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Huss was not reserve in his criticism of the Church of Rome for their business practices and unscrupulous dealings with relics, and simoniacal charges for spiritual services.
Huss took the Bible very seriously and was ready to always agree with the established church as long as the established church agreed with the Bible.
Huss was irreverent to the Church that in his biblical view was irreverent to the Word of God.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Huss,   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Huss, John, Czech Jan Hus, 1369?-1415, Czech religious reformer.
After the burning of Huss (1415) and Jerome of Prague (1416), the Hussites continued as a powerful group in Bohemia and Moravia.
The city was founded in 1420 by John Žižka on a hill near the castle where John Huss had retired in 1412.
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 The Fire That Was Kindled in Bohemia - The Life and Martyrdom of John Huss   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
It is not easy to stop John Huss, however, for the king is his friend, and cares not for priest or Pope.
So finding John Huss in their power, the Pope and the cardinals have thrust him into a dungeon, and now he is to pay the penalty for being a heretic.
The particles sink to the bottom or are wafted on to the great falls at Schaffhausen, where the water foams over the granite ledges, and from thence are borne down the Rhine to the sea, as Wicklif's dust was borne on the current of the Avon and Severn to the ocean.
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 Higher Praise Greatest Preachers (John Huss)
His parents gave him the best education their circumstances would admit; and having acquired a tolerable knowledge of the classics at a private school, he was removed to the university of Prague, where he soon gave strong proofs of his mental powers, and was remarkable for his diligence and application to study.
In 1398, Huss commenced bachelor of divinity, and was after successively chosen pastor of the Church of Bethlehem, in Prague, and dean and rector of the university.
Huss, with some other members of the university, protested against these proceedings, and entered an appeal from the sentence of the archbishop.
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 John Huss   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Huss was the most important of the forerunners of the Reformation within Europe.
In 1414 Huss was summoned for trial before the General Council of Constance.
The followers of Huss were known as Taborites and then Bohemian or Moravian Brethren and they strongly influenced the Reformation as it developed.
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 John Huss
John Huss was born in Hussenitz, Boehemia in 1372 and later studied theology at the University of Prague.
John Huss was soon summoned to Rome by the pope and he, along with those who followed his teachings, were eventually excommunicated from the church.
Huss was invited to attend the Council of Constance, but when he arrived about January 1415, he was arrested and held in a room in the palace.
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 John Huss - Sketches of Church History
Huss made many enemies among the clergy by attacking their faults from the pulpit of a chapel called Bethlehem, where he was preacher.
Huss usually declared that Wyclif had been wrongly understood, and that his real meaning was true and innocent.
Huss and his chief friend, whose name was Jerome, set themselves against this with all their might.
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 John Huss: An early Reformer / The History of the English Bible
From this unjust sentence Huss appealed to a future Council, but without success; and, notwithstanding so severe a decree, and an expulsion in consequence from his church in Prague, he retired to Hussenitz, his native place, where he continued to promulgate his new doctrine, both from the pulpit and with the pen.
John Huss was summoned to appear at this Council; and, to encourage him, the emperor sent him a safe-conduct: the civilities, and even reverence, which Huss met with on his journey were beyond imagination.
This reformer, who was the companion of Dr. Huss, and may be said to be a co-martyr with him, was born at Prague, and educated in that university, where he particularly distinguished himself for his great abilities and learning.
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 John Hus
One of Wycliffe’s followers, John Hus, actively promoted Wycliffe’s ideas: that people should be permitted to read the Bible in their own language, and they should oppose the tyranny of the Roman church that threatened anyone possessing a non-Latin Bible with execution.
Jan Huss) was a religious thinker and reformer, born in Southern Bohemia in 1369.
John Hus, the famous Reformer of Bohemia, was born at Hussinetz (Husinecz; 75 miles south west of Prague) on or around July 6, 1369.
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 John Huss — Infoplease.com
John Huss: Martyrdom - Martyrdom At the invitation of Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund, who granted him a safe-conduct, Huss...
John Huss: Early Life - Early Life Of peasant origin, he was born in Husinec, Bohemia (from which his name is derived).
John Huss: Attacks on the Church - Attacks on the Church In his sermons Huss attacked the abuses of the clergy, thus earning the...
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 John Huss
Huss maintained that Christ, not Peter, was the foundation of the Church and that some Popes had been heretics.
In 1414, John was promised safe conduct by the Pope and Emperor Sigismund to the Council of Constance to present his views.
The martyrdom of Huss kept the "religious pot" boiling for a hundred years so that a century later Martin Luther was warned against going to Leipzig even when promised a safe conduct by the Pope.
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 The History of Protestantism - Volume First - Book Third - John Huss and the Hussite Wars   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
John Huss was born on the 6th of July, 1373, in the market town of Hussinetz, on the edge of the Bohemian forest near the source of the Moldau river, and the Bavarian boundary.
Huss was able soon after (1409) to render another service to his nation, which, by extending his fame and deepening his influence among the Bohemian people, paved the way for his great work.
Huss naturally wished to reply, pointing out what was false, what was perverted, and what was true in the indictment preferred against him, assigning the grounds and adducing the proofs in support of those sentiments which he really held, and which he had taught.
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 John Huss - Theopedia
John Huss (1369 Southern Bohemia – July 6, 1415 Constance) was a religious thinker and reformer.
The Catholic Church did not condone such uprisings, and Hus was excommunicated in 1411, condemned by the Council of Constance, and burned at the stake.
In 1405 he was active as a synodical preacher, but the bishop was compelled to depose him on account of his severe attacks upon the clergy.
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 John Huss, 1369-1415, Bohemian Reformer A short biography of John Huss, Bohemian reformer and martyr Believersweb.org
John Huss, 1369-1415, Bohemian Reformer A short biography of John Huss, Bohemian reformer and martyr Believersweb.org
John Huss was ordained to the priesthood of the Roman Catholic Church in 1401, after receiving the bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Prague.
He became a powerful preacher of Roman doctrine, until he be- gan to translate some of the sermons of John Wycliffe into the Bohemian language.
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 Biography: John Huss, martyr, 1415, with More and Fisher
He received a master's degree from Charles University in Prague in 1396, became a professor of theology in 1398, was ordained to the priesthood in 1400, was made rector of the University in 1402, and in 1404 received a bachelor's degree in theology (presumably a more advanced degree than the term suggests today).
In Anglican circles, they are often remembered three months later, on 6 October, together with their fellow martyr William Tyndale, and I have followed this custom.
John Fisher was born in 1469, enrolled at Cambridge University in 1483, ordained in 1491, and in 1502 became chaplain to Lady Margaret Beaufort, mother of King Henry VII.
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