of the Roman church that threatened anyone possessing a non-Latin Bible with execution. Hus was burned at the stake in 1415."
"The p rocession [that led to the attack on the City Council in 1419] was a result of the growing discontent at the inequality between the peasants and the contemporary direction of the Church, the Church's prelates, and the nobility."
The Hussite Priest, Jan Ã... ½elivskà ½, also a follower of Wycliffe, saw the "Catholic Church as corrupt. . . . . [Such Hussite] preachers urged their congregations to action, including taking up arms, to combat these perceived transgressions." The first defenestration of Prague led to over 15 years of war in the Czech regions.
There have been many similar events in Prague over the centuries. In the 20th century, Jan Masaryk's body was found on the grounds below Prague's great castle where other bodies from high above the city had landed in 1483. "On March 10, 1948 Masaryk was found dead, dressed in his pajamas, in the courtyard of the Foreign Ministry below his bathroom window. The initial 'investigation' stated that he had committed suicide by jumping out of the window, although for a long time it has been believed by some that he was murdered by the nascent Communist government." Masaryk's father, Thomas, had been the country's first president in 1919 and Jan was seen as the strongest opposition leader to the communists in the country after WWII.
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