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We know the Lollard Reformation in England spread throughout the British Isles and through Germanic Europe, with Jan Hus and more spreading it through Bohemia and the Holy Roman Empire, leaving Germany, Austria, Bohemia, the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Nordic Countries, and the United Kingdom nearly exclusively Reformed, or Protestant, as some call it, and some reformed churches in Latin Europe. What if that had failed? Would the Reformed Church of England have come later, or maybe not at all?
Our church no longer has the Catholic Rites, such as trans-substantiation, veneration of Mary, purgatory, clerical celibacy, prayers for the dead, and seven sacraments (the RCE has two); and we valued translation and reading of the Bible in common English. Could a later or failed Lollard effort have even caused the RCE to have different beliefs perhaps? Or the English Bible not to be translated or delayed, maybe even banned like the Catholic Pope Innocent III did? Maybe English would be different today without the first Wycliffe Bible helping standardize our speech.