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MILICZ, or MILITSCH (d. 1374)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 444 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MILICZ, or MILITSCH (d. 1374)  , Bohemian divine, was the most influential among those preachers and writers in See also:Moravia and Bohemia who, during the 14th See also:century, in a certain sense paved the way for the reforming activity of See also:Huss . The date of his See also:birth is not known, but he was in See also:holy orders in 1350, in 136o was attached to the See also:court of the See also:emperor See also:Charles IV., whom he accompanied into See also:Germany in that See also:year, and about the same See also:time also held a canonry in the See also:cathedral of See also:Prague along with the dignity of See also:archdeacon . About 1363 he resigned all his appointments that he might become a preacher pure and See also:simple; he addressed scholars in Latin, and (an innovation) the laity in their native See also:Czech, or in See also:German, which he learnt for the purpose . He was conspicuous for his apostolic poverty and soon roused the enmity of the mendicant friars . The success of his labours made itself apparent in the way in which he transformed the notorious " Benatki " See also:street of Prague into a benevolent institution, " See also:Jerusalem." As he viewed the evils inside and outside the See also:church in the See also:light of Scripture, the conviction See also:grew in his mind that the " See also:abomination of desolation " was now seen in the See also:temple of See also:God, and that See also:antichrist had come, and in 1367 he went to See also:Rome (where See also:Urban V. was expected from See also:Avignon) to expound these views . He affixed to the See also:gate of St See also:Peter's a See also:placard announcing his See also:sermon, but before he could deliver it was thrown into See also:prison by the See also:Inquisition . Urban, however, on his arrival, ordered his See also:release, whereupon he returned to Prague, and from 1369 to 1372 preached daily in the Teyn Church there . In' the latter year the See also:clergy of the See also:diocese complained of him in twelve articles to the papal court at Avignon, whither he was summoned in See also:Lent 1374, and where he died in the same year, not See also:long after being declared See also:innocent and authorized to preach before the See also:assembly of cardinals . He was the author of a Libellus de Antichristo, written in prison at Rome, a See also:series of Postillae and Lectiones quadragesimales in Latin, and a similar series of Postils (devotional tracts) in Czech . See See also:Count Liitzow, See also:Life and Times of See also:Master See also:John Hus (1909), PP . 27-38 .

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