Punishment of Sin

Punishment of Sin was the fourth of the Four Articles of Prague, the Hussite programme agreed in July 1420 by the moderate Praguers and the radical Taborites. It required that mortal sins, especially public ones, be checked and put right in every estate by those responsible.

The diet at Čáslav made the articles law in 1421. They were never fully accepted, however: at Basel in 1436 only the lay chalice was recognised.