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belief that he was speaking in the name of Christ, not in his own — Hus sometimes showed traces of the self-willed obstinacy which the enemies of Bohemia have ever declared to be characteristic of its inhabitants. Such slight blemishes, visible indeed to the modern writer, were not unnaturally ignored by the enthusiastic followers of Hus. To them he was "The Martyr," and the National Church of Bohemia, up to the time of its suppression in the seventeenth century, continued to celebrate the 6th of July, the anniversary of the death of Hus. moment the minutiae of mediaeval neglecting for martyr that theological controversy, we consider as man who willingly sacrifices his individual life for what he firmly believes to be the good of humanity at large, who "takes the world's life on him and his own lays no truer martyr in the down," then assuredly there world's annals than John of Husinec. The name of Jerome of Prague was, particularly among older writers, so closely connected with that of would appear incorrect altogether to omit Hus, that mentioning his name. He had by no means the great influence on the development of Hussitism in Bohemia — in which country he appeared but occasionally and for short periods — which was attributed to him before the studies of the present century had rendered the past What influence he obhistory of Bohemia clearer. tained was through his eloquence, not through his pen, so that his place in history of Bohemian literature very modest one. One letter still preserved has been, on doubtful evidence, attributed to Jerome. more pleasing, at any rate, to doubt its authenticity.