BONUS EPISODE: Hus the goose

I've never been, but if you were to go to the city of Prague in the Czech Republic and you were to go to the old city square, there is a statue in the center of the old city square there in Prague.

And the statue is of a man.

and he's looking over at the church, facing toward the church in the old city square there in Prague, and that man is John Hus, or as his name is pronounced in the Czech, Jan Hus.

And John Hus was a preacher, He was a professor and indeed he was a proto-reformer.

If we consider 1519, the year 1519, about two years into the Reformation, Martin Luther finds himself at the Leipzig Disputation where he's he's uh you know meeting and and debating his his nemesis ek and it's there at the leipzig disputation that luther utters these words yeah ik ben husite and that's the german of course what is he saying he says uh yes i am a husite And apparently there at the Leipzig Disputation, when Luther makes this declaration, the room just absolutely erupts in pandemonium because this Hussite heresy, as deemed by the Roman Catholic Church, it was taboo, to say the least.

In the Roman Catholic Church, it was not a good thing.

And it's fascinating that Luther evokes this man, John Hus, Jan Hus, if you will, uh, because, um, though he was not a part of the reformation, you know, living and dying about a hundred years before the Protestant reformation, he was indeed a proto reformer.

He was, uh, not only, uh, a preacher who articulated, uh, problems with the roman catholic church but also ended up as a martyr as a martyr martyred by the roman catholic church Jan Hus was born in 1372.