the pope heard of this, Hus was banned from preaching in Bethlehem Chapel, where he often preached twice a day to an ever-widening circle of listeners. Hus refused to obey the pope and was therefore excommunicated by his archbishop. In the same year that two hundred of Wycliffe’s books were publicly burned in England, Hus was summoned to Rome. He wisely refused to go and sent representatives in his stead. Hus’s anger was stirred when Pope John XXIII launched a crusade against the