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The Waldensians, also known as Waldenses ( / wɔːlˈdɛnsiːz, wɒl -/ ), Vallenses, Valdesi, or Vaudois, are adherents of a church tradition that began as an ascetic movement within Western Christianity before the Reformation. Originally known as the Poor of Lyon in the late twelfth century, [1] [2] [3] the movement spread to the Cottian Alps ...
The Moravian Church, or the Moravian Brethren (Czech: Moravská církev or Moravští bratři), formally the Unitas Fratrum (Latin: "Unity of the Brethren"), is one of the oldest Protestant denominations in Christianity, dating back to the Bohemian Reformation of the 15th century and the Unity of the Brethren (Czech: Jednota bratrská) founded ...
The Czechoslovak Hussite Church ( Czech: Církev československá husitská, CČSH or CČH; Slovak: Cirkev československá husitská) is a Christian church that separated from the Catholic Church after World War I in former Czechoslovakia . Both the Czechoslovak Hussite Church and Moravian Church trace their tradition back to the Hussite ...
The. Hussite. wars. By killing Hus, the church authorities provided the Czech reformers with a martyr. From then on, the movement, hitherto known as Wycliffite, took the name Hussite, and it grew rapidly. The Hussites reacted emotionally against the Council of Constance, the German king Sigismund, and the conservative clergy.
Definition. The Hussite Wars (1419 to c. 1434) were a series of conflicts fought in Bohemia (modern-day Czech Republic) between followers of the reformer Jan Hus and Catholic loyalists toward the end of the Bohemian Reformation (c. 1380 to c. 1436). Although the Catholics won, the Hussites were granted the freedom of religion they had fought for.
Dec 9, 2019 · The moderate Hussites, the Utraquists, eventually agreed to only part of the changes the movement brought up and rejoined the higher orders of the Catholic Church. On the other hand, the radical Hussites, the Taborists, already started destroying churches across Bohemia and seizing the Church property.
May 11, 2018 · Hussites Bohemian and Moravian followers of the 15th-century religious reformer Jan Hus. The execution of Hus in 1415 provoked the Hussite Wars against Emperor Sigismund. The Council of Basel (1431) brought peace, but the Taborites, the radical wing of the Hussites, rejected the terms. Sigismund defeated the Taborites at the Battle of Lipany in ...
