ABSTRACT
A certain German from their number took the monstrance with the blessed sacrament, crushed the host, and rammed the monstrance down into his quiver. When the horrible news about the great catastrophe [508] reached Prague, the entire town was greatly disturbed. Women and children wept for their fathers and husbands who had been lost there; all the people of Prague, both clergy and lay, bewailed the lawless action of their brothers, and the faithful preachers cried out in all the churches in Prague that almighty God had sent this blow upon them as a righteous judgment. ‘Because,’ they said, ‘when at the beginning we fought with compassion and humility for the defense of our most holy truth, all things turned out favorably for us with God’s help. For, as it was said, the prince-electors of the empire, both the ecclesiastical and secular lords and the princes of Bavaria and the Rhineland.
