. Beza's Icones, contemporary portraits of reformers of religion and letters; being facsimile reproductions of the portraits in Beza's Icones (1580) and in Goulard's edition (1581). 232 GROUP VII A PRINCIPAL RENEWER OF CHRISTIANITY RESTOREDAMONG THE POLES JOHN ALASCO. JOHN ALASCO. John ALasco (Jean A Lasco, Polonois) IN Reformation times Poland was intimatelyconnected with Bohemia. The language ofthe two countries was practically the same ;Polish students resorted to the University ofPrague ; one of the first martyrs in Bohemiawas a Pole, Stanislaw Pazek, the shoemaker, whosuffered death along
. Beza's Icones, contemporary portraits of reformers of religion and letters; being facsimile reproductions of the portraits in Beza's Icones (1580) and in Goulard's edition (1581). 232 GROUP VII A PRINCIPAL RENEWER OF CHRISTIANITY RESTOREDAMONG THE POLES JOHN ALASCO. JOHN ALASCO. John ALasco (Jean A Lasco, Polonois) IN Reformation times Poland was intimatelyconnected with Bohemia. The language ofthe two countries was practically the same ;Polish students resorted to the University ofPrague ; one of the first martyrs in Bohemiawas a Pole, Stanislaw Pazek, the shoemaker, whosuffered death along with two Bohemians in 1411,for opposing Papal indulgences. So, when the light of the morning star of theEnglish Reformation penetrated to Bohemia, it soonpassed on to Poland. In Poland the Renaissance andReformation movements started with brilliant pro-mise, which renders all the more tragic the subsequentovercasting of the light in that unhappy with the inceptive period of the Reforma-tion in Poland, the name of honour and distinction isthat of John Laski, known in England as John ALasco. ^35 Bezas Portraits of Reformers The Castle of Lask, near the town of that name,was the ancestral seat of the Laski family, and there,in the last year of
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