Abstract
Master John Huss was born in a poor family in Hussinetz around the year 1370. He studied with a great diligence at the University of Prague and he wanted to become a Catholic priest.
According to Bishop - Martyr Gorazd Master John Huss was not a religious or ecclesiastical rebel, he was just striving for a purification of the contemporary church life. Although he never visited any Orthodox country he met some Orthodox Christians in Prague.
His tolerant attitude towards the Orthodox Church for formed by his ecclesiology. In Russia in the 16th - 17th century John Huss was considered a heretic, but in the 19th century some started to view him as a Saint.
In the Czech Orthodox circles there are two views on the question of a possibility to canonize John Huss. One is in favour to canonize him as an Orthodox Saint, the other considers it completely out of the question.
In the Orthodox patristic tradition a Saint means someone who is cured - a person who has gone through purification and reached illumination, and from illumination has gone on to glorification.