Huss

(noun.) Czechoslovakian religious reformer who anticipated the Reformation; he questioned the infallibility of the Catholic Church was excommunicated (1409) for attacking the corruption of the clergy; he was burned at the stake (1372-1415).

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• Huss became rector of the university, and his teachings roused the church to excommunicate him (1412). 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Huss was decoyed to Constance under promise of a safe conduct, and he was then put upon his trial for heresy. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• A colleague of Huss, Jerome of Prague, was burnt in the following year. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• If one may imagine an eighteenth-century John Huss, it is impossible to imagine anyone with sufficient passion to burn him. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But his protectors among the princes were too powerful for him to suffer the fate of John Huss. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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