Editing Jan Hus (section)

====Condemnation====
[[File:Hus památník.jpg|thumb|220px|The monument in [[Konstanz]], where reformer Jan Hus was executed (1862)]]
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The condemnation of Jan Hus took place on 6 July 1415 in the presence of the assembly of the council in the cathedral. After the [[Solemn Mass|High Mass]] and Liturgy, Hus was led into the church. The [[Bishop of Lodi]] (then [[Giacomo Balardi Arrigoni]]) delivered an oration on the duty of eradicating heresy; various theses of Hus and Wycliffe and a report of his trial were then read.

An Italian prelate pronounced the sentence of condemnation upon Hus and his writings. Hus protested, saying that even at this hour he did not wish anything but to be convinced from Scripture.{{citation needed|date=September 2023}} He fell upon his knees and asked God with a soft voice to forgive all his enemies.{{citation needed|date=September 2023}} Then followed his degradation from the priesthood. He was dressed in priestly vestments and again asked to recant and again he refused. With curses, Hus's ornaments were taken from him, his priestly [[tonsure]] was destroyed. The judgment of the Church was pronounced:

{{Blockquote|text=This holy synod of Constance, seeing that God’s church has nothing more that it can do, relinquishes John Hus to the judgment of the secular authority and decrees that he is to be relinquished to the secular court.|source=Council of Constance, Session 15 – 6 July 1415<ref>{{cite web |last1=Fathers |first1=Council |title=Council of Constance 1414-18 Council Fathers |url=https://www.papalencyclicals.net/Councils/ecum16.htm |website=Papal Encyclicals |language=en |date=5 November 1414}}</ref>}}

A tall paper hat was allegedly put upon his head with the inscription "''[[Heresiarch|Haeresiarcha]]''" (''i.e.'', the leader of a heretical movement).<ref>{{Cite book |last=De Schweinitz |first=Edmund |title=The History of the Church Known as the Unitas Fratrum: Or the Unity of the Brethren, Founded by the Followers of John Hus, the Bohemian Reformer and Martyr |publisher=Moravian Publication Office |year=1885 |location=Bethlehem, PA. |pages=74}}</ref> Hus was led away to the stake under a strong guard of armed men.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Huss, John, Hussites |url=https://www.ccel.org/s/schaff/encyc/encyc05/htm/v.xii.ii.htm |access-date=2024-05-11 |website=www.ccel.org}}</ref>

Before his execution, Hus is said to have declared, "You may kill a weak goose [''Hus'' is Czech for "goose"], but more powerful birds, eagles and falcons, will come after me."{{Citation needed|date=January 2024}} [[Martin Luther|Luther]] modified the statement and reported that Hus had said that they might have roasted a goose, but that in a hundred years a swan would sing to whom they be forced to listen. In 1546, in his [[funeral sermon]] for Luther, [[Johannes Bugenhagen]] gave a further twist to Hus's declaration: "You may burn a goose, but in a hundred years will come a swan you will not be able to burn." Twenty years later, in 1566, [[Johannes Mathesius]], Luther's first biographer, found Hus's prophecy to be evidence of Luther's divine inspiration.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Scribner|first=R. W.|date=1986|title=Incombustible Luther: The Image of the Reformer in Early Modern Germany|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/650648|journal=Past & Present|issue=110|pages=38–68|doi=10.1093/past/110.1.38|jstor=650648|issn=0031-2746}}</ref>