About Jan Hus(John Huss)
John Hus was a Bohemian religious leader who, supporting Wycliffe's religious ideas, tried to spread them through out central Europe. Huss was arrested, tried as a heretic, found guilty and burned at the stake. Huss death aroused his followers, the Hussites, to armed rebellion, but they were suppressed by the armies of the Holy Roman Emperor.
Concerning John Wycliffe's religion ideas, let me tell you that he was an English priest who attacked the church because of it's wealth, it's political power, and worldliness of it's clergy. He demanded changes in certain basic beliefs and practices of the church and alerted the supremacy of the Pope. To enable the people to guide themselves in religious matters, he translated the bible in English for his heretical belief. Wycliffe's was denounced by the Pope, Wycliffe's followers, known as Lollards were harshly persecuted.
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