“no faith need be kept with heretics.” –
Be careful of Europeans guaranteeing security and safe passage.
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Today 603 year ago (6 July 1415) Jan Hus, a Czech who spoke out against Church corruption, is burned at the stake as a heretic. The Murder of Hus is of the utmost importance:
1. “not a hair of his head should be touched while he remained in the city.”
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Hus was promised by the emperor Sigmond himself a guarantee of free passage. The safe-conduct, bearing the large imperial seal, promised “protection and safeguard” and requested that Hus be allowed “freely and securely” to “pass, sojourn, stop, and return.”
“The Bohemian nobles who accompanied him rode ahead to meet with the pope and ask whether Hus would be allowed to remain in Constance free from the risk of violence. “Had he killed my own brother,” John replied, “not a hair of his head should be touched while he remained in the city.”
The Emporer never explained why he broke his promise. But one of the English Cardinals explained: “no faith need be kept with heretics.”
2. THE BOHEMIAN REVOLUTION: ”
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1415–36 The news of Huss’s death, relayed by couriers to Bohemia, aroused a national revolt. An assembly of Bohemian and Moravian nobles sent to the Council of Constance (September 2, 1415) a document signed by 500 leading Czechs; it upheld Huss as a good and upright Catholic, denounced his execution as an insult to his country, and proclaimed that the signatories would fight to the last drop of their blood to defend the doctrines of Christ against man-made decrees. A further declaration pledged the members to obey thereafter only such papal commands as agreed with Scripture; the judges of such agreement were to be the faculty of the University of Prague. The university itself hailed Huss as a martyr and praised the imprisoned Jerome. The Council summoned the rebellious nobles to appear before it and answer charges of heresy; none came. It ordered the university closed; the majority of masters and students went on with their work.”
The Dance of Death painting (1424)
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– in which demons, pirouetting with men, women, and children, led them step by merry step to hell. This became a symbolic theme of a desperate age; a play presented it at Bruges in 1449; Dürer, Holbein, and Bosch would illustrate it in their art. Pessimism wrote half the poetry of the period. Deschamps reviled life in almost all its parts; the world seemed to him like a weak, timorous, covetous old man, confused and decayed; “all goes badly,” he concluded. Gerson agreed with him: “We lived in the senility of the world,” and the Last Judgment was near. An old woman thought that every twitch of pain in her toes announced another soul heaved into hell. Her estimate was moderate; according to popular belief no one had entered paradise in the past thirty years”
Ingmar Bergman’s motion picture The Seventh Seal.
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Later on, the idea of the dance of death reappeared and was also immortalized In 1957 as the visual climax of Ingmar Bergman’s motion picture The Seventh Seal.
Luther
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The eventual appearance of Luther can also be attributed to the murder of Hus, the teaching of John Wyclif and others.
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This repeated patern of betrayl of broken promisses is part ofn the European pattern. It was not just the Betrayls of Hus it happened many more times.
Whenever I have an argument with a EU colleague on EU promising Israel of Security guarantees -I always remind them of the sentence – “no faith need be kept with heretics.”
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https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wyclif
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18925713-the-reformation
https://www.britannica.com/art/dance-of-death-art-motif
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/128898.The_Reformation
https://www.amazon.com/Swerve-How-World-Became…/…/0393343405
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wyclif
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hus
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