The Utraquists ("Both-kinders") were moderate followers of Jan Hus, who maintained that the Eucharist should be administered to the people in both kinds, i.e., as both both bread and wine. Their emblem was the chalice. They were also known as the Prague Party or the Calixtenes, in opposition to the radical element, or Taborites. Renaissance portrait of Jan Hus Jan Hus (1369 Husinec, Southern Bohemia – July 6, 1415 Constance) was a religious thinker and reformer. ... The Eucharist is either the celebration of the Christian sacrament commemorating Christ’s Last Supper, or the consecrated bread and wine of this sacrament. ... Breads are a group of staple foods prepared by baking, steaming, or frying dough consisting minimally of flour and water. ... A glass of red wine Wine display at the Mt Markey Winery This article is about the beverage. ... Russian chalice A chalice (from Latin calix, cup) is a goblet, intended to hold just drink. ... A Taborite (Czech Táborita) was a member of religious protestant community of the Bohemian city of Tábor during the Hussite Wars in the 15th century The people joined local peasants to develop a communist-like society. ...
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At the decisive battle of Lipany (1434) the Taborites were routed and Procopius was killed.
On the death (1439) of Sigismund's successor, Albert II, the Utraquist leader George of Podebrad governed Bohemia first in the name of Ladislaus V and from 1458 as king.
He refused to accept the papal revocation (1462) of the Compactata and was declared deposed in 1466.
Utraquist, preachers; a league of Catholic lords was formed on 1 October; it consisted mostly of the southern and northern gentry accessible to German influence.
The University of Prague was heavily Utraquist; the council, therefore, towards the end of 1416, suspended all its privileges and forbade, under excommunication, all further academical proceedings.
The Utraquist magistrates imposed their whole will on the town and the university; riots and deeds of violence occurred everywhere the wealthy monasteries were the first and greatest sufferers.
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