In the autumn of 1414, a Council was convened in Constance, so that order might finally be restored in th Church. Hus decided to travel to the Council.

On 14 October 1414, Hus set out from Prague, in the company of leading Czech nobles. He was arrested and kept in prison in Constance.

On several occasion he was called before the Council and put under pressure to recant his views. He refused to recant, asking for an explanation of where he was in error. He was condemned as an intractable heretic and burned at the stake on 6 July 1415. Afterwards, his ashes were scattered in the Rhine.

Hus´s death provokes riots in the Czech republic lands and let to conflicts which lasted for centuries. However, it did demonstrate the genuine commitments – as we would say today – of Master John Hus to the truth of Christ and to a genuine, pure and moral life of the individual and of society, for which he was prepared to sacrifice his own life.