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To: vladimir998
I'm not going to allow that to stand unrefuted, vlad.

The Bethlehem Chapel remained a centre of Protestant Church after the Hussite wars ended, but Catholicism finally won in the Czech Kingdom. The rebellion of Protestant nobles was defeated at the Battle of White Mountain in 1620. The Church of Rome confiscated the chapel then and Jesuit order bought it in 1661. They made it a Catholic church.

After the Jesuit order was suppressed in the 18 th century, Emperor Joseph II. had the Bethlehem Chapel desecrated and demolished in 1786. Only a sacristy remained there, with a room, where Jan Hus used to live.

The idea to rebuild the chapel was realized in 1950s. The original shape of the building was found out from old illustrations and it was projected by Jaroslav Fragner. The remains of the original Bethlehem Chapel were integrated to the new one.

This comes from the website of the city of Prague, Czech Republic itself (prague.cz).

119 posted on 06/09/2010 11:06:55 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry

You wrote:

“This comes from the website of the city of Prague, Czech Republic itself (prague.cz).”

Sorry, but you’re going to have to do better than that. Here are the problems with what you posted:

“The Church of Rome confiscated the chapel then and Jesuit order bought it in 1661.”

1) If it was a Catholic chapel in the beginning - and that’s what Hus called it - then no “confiscation” could take place on the part of Rome. The chapel would already have belonged to it.

2) Since the Church of Rome never took to the field in military arms as such in the battles around Prague in the 1620 it was clearly the governmental forces which took control of the chapel. They gave it to whom they wished.

3) When Protestants, under Samuel Martini, seized control of Prague in 1632, they did not give the Bethlehem Chapel to any supposed followers of Huss. They simply did not recognize them as the proper owners of the building.

4) After the Battle of White Mountain the Jesuits actually had restored to them an entirely different building which had previously been seized by the followers of Huss. In other words, this supposed seizing of buildings had been going in both directions.

5) Also, and you probably didn’t know this (why would you know these facts?), the Unitas Fratrum got control of the Bethlehem Chapel in 1612 after the fall of HRE Rudolph. This is one of the reasons why they named their settlement in Pennsylvania Bethlehem.

“They made it a Catholic church.”

That’s what it had been in the beginning - according to Huss.


121 posted on 06/10/2010 7:01:24 AM PDT by vladimir998 (Part of the Vast Catholic Conspiracy (hat tip to Kells))
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