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The followers of Jan Hus did not of themselves assume the name of Hussites. Like Hus, they believed their creed to be truly Catholic; in papal and conciliar documents they appear as Wycliffites, although Hus and even Jerome of Prague are ... named as their leaders. They wisely objected to the appellation of Hussites, which implied separation from the Universal Church; willing to venerate Hus as a holy martyr of the old religion, they refused to see in him the founder of a new one. Only about 1420, with the beginning of the Hussite Wars does the new name occur, first in the neighbouring lands; then it gradually imposes itself as connoting both the original followers of Hus and the subsequent smaller sects into which they divided. The distinctive tenet of the Hussites is the necessity, alike for priest and layman of Communion under both kinds, sub utraque specie whence the term Utraquists. Hus himself never preached Utraquism.
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The Jan Hus memorial stands at one end of Old Town Square Prague in the Czech Republic. The huge monument depicts victorious Hussite warriors and Protestants who were forced into exile 200 years after Hus and a young mother which symbolizes national rebirth. It was unveiled in 1915 to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Jan Hus’ martyrdom. The memorial was designed by Ladislav Saloun and paid for solely by public donations. Born in 1370, Hus became an influential religious thinker, philosopher, and reformer in Prague. Hus believed that Catholic mass should be given in the vernacular, or local language, rather than in Latin.
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The Jan Hus exhibition is dedicated to the 590th anniversary of his death. The Curator of the exhibition is one of the International Baptist Theological Seminary's teachers - Doc. Jan Lášek, PhD. He is the leading international expert on Jan Hus; the whole exhibition tries to be as objective as possible, showing the whole of Hus's life, his teaching and its meaning for today.
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The exact date of Jan Hus's birth cannot be determined. It has been variously given as the year 1369, 1372, 1373 or 1375. Popular legend placed the exact date as July 6, 1369, but July 6 is believed to be nothing more than an imaginative analogy with the date of his martyrdom. In any event, he was born in Husinec (meaning "Goosetown") in southern Bohemia on the border of Bavaria.
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On December 17, 1999, Pope John Paul II told an international symposium, "Today, on the eve of the Great Jubilee, I feel the need to express deep regret for the cruel death inflicted on Jan Hus." He commended Hus's "moral courage in the face of adversity and death" and proclaimed that through the scholars' work, "Hus, who has been such a point of contention in the past, has now become a subject of dialogue, of comparison and shared investigation."
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Most of the Daruvars' radioamateurs are in Radio Club "Jan Hus". Radio Club "Jan Hus" has been founded in 1971, as a elementary school radioamateur section. Founders were maths teacher Vladimir Varat (9A2LP) and Vladimir Koudela (9A2YF), then student at ETF Zagreb. At organized courses Vladimir Varat manages to transfer his knowledge to young generations and they are know the core of "Jan Hus". By its emancipation from elementary school in 1978. radio club is named "Radio klub Češka osnovna škola".
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