Wycliffe and Hus Condemned as Heretics: The Pre-Reformation Burns
They burned his bones thirty-one years after he died. John Wycliffe had translated the Bible into English and questioned papal authority from Oxford. Safe in his grave since 1384. But Jan Hus read Wycliffe's writings in Prague, preached the same ideas, and the Church finally had a living target. The Council of Constance condemned them both in 1415. Hus went to the stake that July. Wycliffe's corpse got dug up in 1428, burned, ashes thrown in the River Swift. The Catholic Church needed a hundred years to figure out you can't kill ideas by killing bodies.
May 4, 1415
611 years ago
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