Hussites
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The Hussites are a Czech proto-Protestant Christian movement that followed the teachings of reformer Jan Hus, a part of the Bohemian Reformation.
Execution of Jan Hus (1415) that sparked outrage in the Kingdom of Bohemia
The Hussite Wagenburg
Recreation of Hussite pavise from an original in the Museum of Prague
Painting celebrating the Catholic victory at the Battle of White Mountain (1620). In the coming years, Bohemia and Moravia were converted from Hussitism to Roman Catholicism by the Habsburgs.
Moravian Church
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The Moravian Church, or the Moravian Brethren, formally the Unitas Fratrum, is one of the oldest Protestant denominations in Christianity, dating back to the Bohemian Reformation of the 15th century a
Hussites
…Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II following the 1620 Battle of White Mountain and during the Thirty Years' War. The Hussite tradition continues in the Moravian Church, Unity of the Brethren and, since the dissolution of Austria-Hungary, by the re-founded Czechoslovak Hussite Church. The Hussite movement began in the…
A stained-glass emblem of Agnus Dei at Trinity Moravian Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Jan Hus
Jan Hus Preaching at Bethlehem Chapel in Prague, a 1916 portrait by Alfons Mucha
Jan Hus at the Council of Constance, a portrait by Václav Brožík