Peter Kániš (died 1421) was a priest and theologian during the

Bohemian reformation The Bohemian Reformation (also known as the Czech Reformation or Hussite Reformation), preceding the Reformation of the 16th century, was a Christian movement in the late medieval and early modern Kingdom of Bohemia, Kingdom and Lands of the Bo ...

, being the chief spokesman for the

Taborites The Taborites (, ), were a faction within the Hussite movement in the medieval Lands of the Bohemian Crown. The Taborites were sometimes referred to as the Picards, a term used for groups which were seen as extreme in their rejection of traditi ...

. Along with other Taborites, he was burned at the stake for heresy by

Jan Žižka Jan Žižka z Trocnova a Kalicha (; 1360 – 11 October 1424) was a Czechs, Czech military leader and Knight who was a contemporary and follower of Jan Hus, and a prominent Radical Hussite who led the Taborites, Taborite faction during the Hu ...

, who wanted to control the most radical parts of the reformation. Kániš advocated the postponement of baptism until the age of thirty over

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. He took a memorialist view of the

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. Bishop Nicholas Biskupec wrote a treatise against him defending the

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of Christ in the Eucharist. A few of those led by Kániš and Martin Húska would later form the

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sect.

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Christian radicalism 1421 deaths Year of birth unknown {{catimprove, date=April 2023