Utraquists

The name given to the mainstream Hussite movement of the Czech church of Bohemia.

In Medieval times there developed a habit in which the laypeople were served only the bread and not the wine during the celebration of the Eucharist, "a custom which has never received any better explanation than that there was worry that the Lord's blood might stick in the moustaches and beards of the male faithful" (D. MacCulloch). The Ultraquists gained its name from the movement's insistence that the people should received both bread and wine (sub utraque specie, "both kinds/species") during the Eucharist.