And this wasn’t the end of the story. It’s never the end. The heart resumed beating in Bohemia; just after Wycliffe’s was stilled in England, a certain Jan Hus took up his mantle and translated his Trialogus into Czech. And then he too began agitating. He preached in Bethlehem Chapel in Prague in favor of church reform. And off it went again: the pope issued a few more bulls that floated off toward Bohemia but snagged one by one on the little spires of Prague.
And now the pope called for a crusade against the king of Naples, and here was Jan Hus getting up on the pulpit of Bethlehem Chapel and preaching disobedience. He preached that one should love and pray even for the enemies of Christ, and thundered that true repentance could not be gained from buying indulgences, or from violent crusades, or from princely power. It was...
