The Compacts of Basel, also known as Basel Compacts or ''Compactata'', was an agreement between the Council of Basel and the moderate

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(or Utraquists), which was ratified by the Estates of Bohemia and Moravia in

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on 5 July 1436. The agreement authorized Hussite priests to administer the

sacramental wine Sacramental wine, Communion wine, altar wine, or wine for consecration is wine obtained from grapes and intended for use in celebration of the Eucharist (also referred to as the Lord's Supper or Holy Communion, among other names). It is usually ...

to laymen during the

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. The Council of

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ratified the document on 15 January 1437, but it acknowledged that the

communion under both kinds Communion under both kinds in Roman Catholicism is the reception under both "species" (i.e., both the consecrated bread and wine) of the Eucharist. Denominations of Christianity that hold to a doctrine of Communion under both kinds may believe ...

was not heretical only on 23 December.

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* * * * Hussite history 1436 in Europe {{Christianity-hist-stub