Jan Hus

A Note on Religion

“…God forsakes him, because he has turned from God. He sinks into oblivion because neither a wife nor children bring happiness into his home, he seeks not salvation, but the tawdry atmosphere of bawdry houses” (Poggius, Letter to Leonhard Nikoai of 10/14/1415; Fudge, 2010).…”

Martyrs’ blood in the English Reformations

“…90 Protestant writers depicted such medieval heretics' martyrdoms as signposts upon the road to the apocalypse, often associating them with Satan's release from his one-thousand-year-long bondage and the commencement of the sixth age of the world. 91 Protestant writers portray Reformation martyrs and medieval heretics as united in their persecution by an antichristian Roman Church; they shed their blood in witness to the true faith, and-once martyred-cry out to God to avenge their blood. This paradigm began in English Protestant writings, with Fish's Supplicacyon depicting England, from the medieval period, standing 'tributary' 'unto a cruel develish bloodsupper drunken in the blood of the saints and martyrs of christ.'…”

‘Bicycle-Face’ and ‘Lawn Tennis’ Girls

“…90 Protestant writers depicted such medieval heretics' martyrdoms as signposts upon the road to the apocalypse, often associating them with Satan's release from his onethousand-year-long bondage and the commencement of the sixth age of the world. 91 Protestant writers portray Reformation martyrs and medieval heretics as united in their persecution by an antichristian Roman Church; they shed their blood in witness to the true faith, andonce martyredcry out to God to avenge their blood. This paradigm began in English Protestant writings, with Fish's Supplicacyon depicting England, from the medieval period, standing 'tributary' 'unto a cruel develish bloodsupper drunken in the blood of the saints and martyrs of christ.'…”

“…They did not converge on all details: Bale saw the witnesses referred to in Revelation 6:11 as Wycliffe and his contemporaries, while Foxe saw them as Hus and Jerome of Prague; Bale refused to date the apocalypse, beyond it being imminent, while Foxe stated that it would occur in 1594, unless God shortened the time frame for the elect's sake (Matthew 24:22). 94 However, the apocalyptic commentaries of both vividly depicted the blood of the martyrs, medieval heretics and Protestants alike, crying out for God's avenging apocalypse and signalling its advent: 'their innocent death fiercely asketh and requireth the great indignation, vengeance, and terrible judgement of God, upon those tyrants… And this is their [the martyrs'] daily cry… How long time will it be ere thou judge them to damnation? What years will thou take ere thou revenge our blood'.…”