Education
After studying medicine at the University of Montpellier, he graduated as Master of Arts from the University of Paris in 1415.
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Pavel Kravar
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Career
The others being: Patrick Hamilton in 1528, Henry Forest in 1533, George Wishart in 1546, and Walter Myln in 1558). Pavel Kravař was probably a native of Kravaře, Opava District, Silesia, now part of the Czechoslovakian Republic. Around 1421, with the University now in decline, Pavel Kravař left Prague to become a physician in the service of the Polish King, Władisław II Jagiełło (Jogaila).
He probably returned to the Bohemian capital in 1432 prior to undertaking his ill-fated mission to Scotland.
Pavel Kravař’s activities in Street Andrews evidently met with the displeasure of the authorities there, particularly Henry Wardlaw, Bishop of Street Andrews, who accused him of spreading the heretical ideas of January Hus and John Wyclif. Pavel Kravař’s execution is believed to have taken place at the centre of the market square in Street Andrews, close to the former location of the Mercat Cross which is now marked with a cross of red stones set into the cobbled surface of the roadway.
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At his trial he defended himself with skill and courage, but was nevertheless condemned and died, according to John Knox, with a brass ball stuffed in his mouth to prevent him addressing the people.
