Hussite

The Hussites comprised an early Protestant

Final Disappearance of the Hussites

The Utraquists had retained hardly anything of

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the doctrines of Hus except communion in both

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kinds. In 1462 Pope Pius II declared the

Related Topics:
1462 - Pope Pius II

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Compactata null and void, prohibited

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communion in both kinds, and

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acknowledged George of Podebrady as

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king under the condition that he would

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promise an unconditional harmony

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with the Roman Church. This he refused, but his

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successor, King Vladislaus II, favored the Roman

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Catholics and proceeded against some zealous

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clergymen of the Calixtines. The troubles of the

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Utraquists increased from year to year. In 1485, at the

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diet of Kutná Hora, an agreement between the

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Roman Catholics and Utraquists was obtained

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which lasted for thirty-one years. But it was

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considerably later, at the diet of 1512, that the equal

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rights of both religions were permanently

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established. Luther's appearance was hailed by the

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Utraquist clergy, and Martin Luther himself was astonished to find so many points of agreement between the

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doctrines of Hus and his own. But not all Utraquists

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approved of the German Reformation; a schism

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arose among them, and many returned to the

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Roman doctrine, while other elements had long

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before joined the Unitas Fratrum. Under

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Maximilian II, the Bohemian state assembly established

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the Confessio Bohemica, upon which Lutherans,

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Reformed, and Bohemian Brethren agreed. From

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that time Hussism began to die out; but it was

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completely eradicated only after the

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battle of the White Mountain (November 8, 1620) and the Roman Catholic reaction which fundamentally changed the ecclesiastical conditions of Bohemia and Moravia.

Related Topics:
Battle of the White Mountain - November 8 - 1620

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