So, how did you go from supporting Wycliffs ideas to becoming a heretic yourself?
Gradually I came to believe that the word of God should be accessible to all believers and the Bible and the services should be in Czech. I also felt that the chalice of wine in the mass should be shared by the congregants, not drunk only by the priests, as was being done. Did the king support you then? Yes, indeed. In fact, when I spoke out against German university students taking Czech government jobs, the king was very supportive. So when did that all change? Well, in 1410 the Archbishop of Prague decided he could not tolerate what he regarded as heresy any longer and ordered two hundred volumes of Wycliff manuscripts burned. When I protested, I was excommunicated and summoned to Rome by the Pope to answer charges against me. I refused to go to Rome to worship the Pope on bended knee. My royal protectors supported me saying that accusers needed to accuse me in our country. The Queen, Sophie, also supported me, and I kept preaching and giving mass at the Chapel. It sounds like you s
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