Protestantism in Poland and Bohemia - James Aitken Wylie

Next day the city sergeant conducted him out of
Prague. A certain cutler, in whose possession a
little book on the Sacrament had been found, was
scourged in the market-place. The same
punishment was inflicted upon John Kalentz, with
the addition of being branded on the forehead,
because it was said that though a layman he had
administered the Eucharist to himself and his
family. John Lapatsky, who had returned from
banishment, under the impression that the king had
published an amnesty to the exiles, was
apprehended, thrown into prison, and murdered.[9]
The tragic fate of Nicolas Wrzetenarz deserves
a more circumstantial detail. Wrzetenarz was a
learned man, well stricken in years. He was
accused of Picardism, a name by which Protestant
sentiments were at times designated. He was
summoned to answer before the Senate. When the
old man appeared, Zahera, who presided on the
tribunal, asked him what he believed concerning
the Sacrament of the altar. "I believe," he replied,
"what the Evangelists and St. Paul teach me to
believe." "Do you believe," asked the other, "that
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