Bethlehem Chapel

And he used that label because he was indicating that although the Pope and the leadership of the Roman Catholic system claimed to represent Christ, claimed to be the vicar of Christ, in reality they were opposed to what Christ truly taught and what that which honors Christ includes.

It was one of Wycliffe's students a generation later, someone influenced by Wycliffe's writings and teachings in Bohemia, a man named John Hus or Jan Hus, who preached at the church there, the Bethlehem Chapel in Prague, also taught at the University of Prague, who held those same convictions that Christ is the head of the church.

He wrote a book called De Ecclesia, means On the Church.

And in that book, he articulated what at that time was a radical concept.

He was actually ordained in the year 1400.

And in 1402, he was named the preacher of the Bethlehem Chapel there in Prague, the Bethlehem Chapel, which stands in the city of Prague even to this day.

And Hus was very, very popular because he was the preacher to the lay people.

Of course, you know that the traditional Roman Catholic Mass is always done in Latin, but Until Vatican II, that was the case.

So we have three main guys who kind of emerge at this point as leaders of, I would say, the intellectual movement of Hussitism.

So you've got Jakobek of Scebo, and he takes over Bethlehem Chapel in Prague, right? So he basically replaces Huss in Huss's own chapel.

You have Václav Korunda, and he is one of my faves.

So he is one of the more radical Hussites.

People are loving this.

They are 100% into hearing these prayers.

So one of the things that you would see when you go into the Bethlehem Chapel, it's ordinary to have, for example, frescoes and beautiful pictures on the walls of churches.

In Bethlehem Chapel, they've written prayers in Czech.