During the celebrations of the anniversary of Jan Hus we met a lot of people in different roles. At the places of memory of Jan Hus, politicians from Czech Republic as well as from Konstanz, members of different associations, academics and historians held speeches. At church celebrations participated politicians as well as the members […]
Constance, May 30, 2016: Dozens of people have gathered in the Luther Church to attend an ecumenical church service in commemoration of Jerome of Prague, who had been burned the very same day, 600 years ago. Among the participants are members of the churches, including the Czechoslovak Hussite Church and the Catholic Church, politicians, notably the […]
During the weekend 27th to 29th of May occurred commemoration festivities of 600 years since the burning of Hieronymus of Prague. After last year’s diverse and generous activities remembering martyrdom of Jan Hus it was rather a modest and narrowly focused program. The reasons are several. The story of Jan Hus seems to be more […]
Monday, 6th of July, 2015, in Constance: The clock was slowly approaching 6pm, when all the bells of the Cathedral of Constance started to ring. It was an ear-deafening sound, though not unpleasant, announcing the start of the ecumenical church service in the memory of Jan Hus, who was burned at the gates of the […]
The authority of science enjoys highly privileged position in Western societies. The institution of modern science creates general framework into which we deliver our personal motives and motivations, plans and desires, courses of our day-to-day lives. This might be also noticeable when we make sense of historical phenomena. Although we are hardly able to experience […]
