This church and the reinvigorated Czech Protestants looked to the Hussite legacy for inspiration. |
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There had been some relief, in 1939, that the Slovaks had escaped from the Hussite clutches of Prague. |
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The opening ceremony will form part of the international Tabor festival where each year power over the town is handed over to a legendary Hussite leader and his men. |
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The rarely heard Hussite overture opens the programme, a powerful piece laced with Bohemian rhythms and melodies, taking its name from the Hussite warriors of Czech folklore. |
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The Hussite church, although the target of a crusade, survived beyond the Middle Ages. |
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This Hussite tradition continued even after the Hussite wars in the practice of the Utraquist Church. |
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Another major faction were the Taborites, who opposed the Utraquists in the Battle of Lipany during the Hussite Wars. |
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Other smaller regional Hussite branches in Bohemia included Adamites, Orebites, Orphans and Praguers. |
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These expeditions forced the Hussite forces, who disagreed on many doctrinal points, to unite to drive out the invaders. |
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We can identify a certain boom in contrafacta in Bohemia in the Hussite period when many hymns and liturgical pieces were translated into Czech. |
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You come from Caslav, and your father was a minister of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church. |
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Later on, theological disputes caused a split within the Hussite movement. |
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During the Hussite wars, many of them were damaged or destroyed. |
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Sadly, the monks of Emmaus eventually joined the heretical Hussite Utraquists, who demanded, among other things, communion under both species as in the Byzantine liturgy. |
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The Hussite Crusades involved the military actions against and amongst the followers of Jan Hus in Bohemia ending ultimately with the Battle of Grotniki. |
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