The Czech Reformation.
A hundred years before Wittenberg, a reform was already burning in Bohemia — and it never entirely went out.
The Hussites built the town of Tábor, defeated five crusades, and split into Utraquists and the radical Taborites. The Unity of the Brethren — later the Moravian Brethren — took the movement further: to Kralice for the Bible, to Herrnhut for refuge, and from there to North America.
After 1620 the reformation was crushed under the Habsburgs. For two centuries the story was underground. It re-emerged in the 19th century when Masaryk's new republic took the chalice as its symbol. That long arc is what our Reformation tours walk.
"Seek truth, hear truth, learn truth, love truth, speak truth, hold truth, defend truth till death."
— Jan Hus, Constance, 1415
Where it happened.
Bethlehem Chapel
Prague · where Hus preached from 1402
Constance
Germany · where Hus was burnt, 1415
Tábor
South Bohemia · the Hussite town, 1420
Kralice
Moravia · where the Czech Bible was printed, 1579
Herrnhut
Saxony · refuge for Brethren after 1722
Who to know.
Jan Hus
1370–1415
Jan Žižka
1360–1424
Petr Chelčický
1390–1460
Jan Amos Komenský
1592–1670
Count Zinzendorf
1700–1760
Master Jakoubek
1373–1429
