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Updated: May 14, 2025
In 1405, Archbishop Sbynko appointed Hus the Synodal preacher, and he often with fierce and fiery fervor severely scored the avarice and immorality of the clergy. He held sin no more permitted to a clergyman than to a layman, and indeed more blameworthy a most astonishing novelty, especially to the priesthood. They honored him with their undying hatred.
Hus condemned this coarse fraud, and Archbishop Zbynek, or Sbynko, forbade the pilgrimages from his diocese. In order to justify his step, Hus wrote a book asserting a Christian need not seek for signs and miracles but need only hold by the Holy Scriptures.
To make the good old times still more interesting, three rivals struggled for the crown of the Holy Roman Empire. Though King Wenzel demanded strict neutrality, Archbishop Sbynko sided with Gregory XII, and at the University the Bohemian "nation" under the lead of Hus was the only one to remain neutral.
At Prag Hus was now at the height of his influence, enjoying the favor of the Court; he was again elected Rector of the University. Hus is Accused to the Pope. Now Archbishop Sbynko went over to the rival pope, Alexander V, and convinced him that all the troubles in Bohemia were due to the teachings of Wiclif spread by Hus.
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