The Bohemian Brethren of the ancient Church which existed from the first introduction of Christianity into that country in the eighth century had formed themselves into a separate community. By the eleventh century they had distinguished themselves from the Roman Church in Bohemia, among these differences being the celebration of public worship, according to the native ritual and in the vulgar tongue.(Bohemian versus Latin) It was not until nearly three hundred years later that the Bohemian bible found it’s way to England. King Richard II of England. married Princess Anne of Bohemia and she became the Queen of England. The Princess brought a Bohemian Bible to England and more importantly to Wycliffe. Bohemian scholars, a few years later, came to study at Oxford; there they read the writings of Wycliffe, the “Morning Star of the Reformation”; and how, finally, copies of Wycliffe’s books were carried to Bohemia, and there gave rise to a religious revival of world-wide importance. We have struck the trail of our journey. For one person that Wycliffe stirred in England, he stirred hundreds in Bohemia. In England his influence was fleeting; in Bohemia it was deep and abiding. In England his followers were speedily suppressed by law; in Bohemia they became a great national force, and prepared the way for the foundation of the Church of the Brethren.
The marriage was a very unpopular union, The Westminster Chronicler called her “a tiny scrap of humanity.”
They could not have missed the mark by any greater distance .
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