{"id":112,"date":"2023-01-31T18:57:16","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T18:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnhus.org\/content\/?p=112"},"modified":"2023-02-03T03:34:51","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T03:34:51","slug":"the-four-articles-of-prague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnhus.org\/content\/the-four-articles-of-prague\/","title":{"rendered":"The Four Articles of Prague"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Four Articles of Prague&#8221; were a set of demands set forth by Hussites.\u00a0 It originated from Jakoubek of St\u0159\u00edbro, Hus&#8217; successor at the Bethlehem Chapel, and\u00a0 the faculty of Charles University in Prague in 1420.\u00a0 Emperor Sigismund refused to accept the Articles, and instead asked Pope Martin V to declare a Crusade against the Hussites.\u00a0 The Articles can be summarized:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Word of God is to be freely examined by Christian priests throughout the Kingdom of Bohemia and the Margravate of Moravia.<\/li>\n<li>The venerable Sacrament of the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ is to be given in two kinds to adults as well as to children, as Jesus Christ has instituted.<\/li>\n<li>The priests and monks, of whom many meddle with the affairs of the State, are to be deprived of the worldly goods which they possess in great quantities and which make them neglect their sacred office; and their goods shall be restored to us, in order that, in accordance with the doctrine of the Gospel, and the practice of the Apostles, the clergy shall be subject to us, and, living in poverty, serve as a pattern of humility to others.<\/li>\n<li>All the public sins which are called mortal, and all other trespasses contrary to the law of God, are to be punished according to the laws of the country, by those in charge of them, in order to wipe from the Kingdom of Bohemia and the Margravate of Moravia the bad reputation of tolerating disorders.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;Four Articles of Prague&#8221; were a set of demands set forth by Hussites.\u00a0 It originated from Jakoubek of St\u0159\u00edbro, Hus&#8217; successor at the Bethlehem Chapel, and\u00a0 the faculty of Charles University in Prague in 1420.\u00a0 Emperor Sigismund refused to accept the Articles, and instead asked Pope Martin V to declare a Crusade against theContinue reading &rarr;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hus","category-hussite-wars","has-thumb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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