Jan Hus memorial / Pomník Jana Husa - Roudnice nad Labem (North Bohemia) - Religious Freedom on Waymarking.com

Depicted modern memorial, devoted to one of the key medieval church's reformers and symbol of neverending fight for truth - Jan Hus (John Hus), is located in Roudnice nad Labem' centre in square bearing Hus' name (Husovo námestí / Hus Square).

The bronze sculpture of Rudolf Breza, a student of Stanislav Sucharda, stands on a prismatic granite plinth. The figure of Jan Hus is depicted in a static upright pose, with his right hand slightly raised in a preaching gesture, with his head tilted up, and the book in his left hand. In the plith front side is inscription "Pravda vítezí" ("Truth prevails"). On the side of the stone plinth is a bronze relief with a Hussite priest and the inscription "V poznané pravde stujtež!" ("Stand in the Truth!"). Memorial was unveiled in 1928.

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John Hus (also John Hus or Jan Huss) was a medieval religious thinker, chancellor of Prague' Charles University and church reformer, born in Southern Bohemia in 1369. He initiated a reform movement based on the ideas of John Wycliffe. His followers became known as Hussites. The Catholic Church did not condone such uprisings, and Hus was excommunicated in 1411 and burned at the stake in Constance on July 6, 1415, having been condemned by the Council of Constance, in an unfair trial.

John Hus, one of Wycliffe’s followers, actively promoted his ideas: that people should be permitted to read the Bible in their own language, and they should oppose the tyranny of the Roman church that threatened anyone possessing a non-Latin Bible with execution. Hus was burned at the stake in 1415, with Wycliffe’s manuscript Bibles used as kindling for the fire. The last words of John Hus were that, “in 100 years, God will raise up a man whose calls for reform cannot be suppressed.” Almost exactly 100 years later, in 1517, Martin Luther nailed his famous 95 Theses of Contention (a list of 95 issues of heretical theology and crimes of the Roman Catholic Church) into the church door at Wittenberg. The prophecy of Hus had come true!"

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