The History of the Bohemian Persecution/Chapter 38

by Johan Amos Comenius

Chap. XXXVIII.

 

Jesuites brought into Bohemia.

 

FErdinand strove with might and main to suppress all those whom hee accounted heretickes, hee brought Iesuites into Prague and founded a very sumptuous and rich Colledge for them: as hee did a little after at Chonotowa, Crolowre & Hradecij, which is called Henries Colledge, and these pretending the education of youth, after their accustomed manner, sought by all means to overthrow the Churches, and added fewell to that fire, which had now almost inflamed the whole country.