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ture was issued. It was not a trial, defense was useless. 

 Again he was asked to recant the matter was all writ- 

 ten out he had but to sign his name. He refused. He 

 was brought to the torture chamber. 

 Here legend and fact separate. There are denials from 

 Churchmen that Galileo was so much as imprisoned. 

 One writer even has tried to show that Galileo was a 

 guest of the Pope and dined daily at his table. The 

 other side has told us that Galileo was thrust into a 

 dungeon, his eyes put out and his broken-down old 

 form tortured on the wheel. 



Recent careful researches reveal that neither side told 

 the truth. We have official record of the case written 

 out at the time for the Vatican archives. Galileo was 

 imprisoned and the order of torture issued, but it was 

 never enforced. Perhaps it was not the intention to en- 

 force it it may have been only a "war measure." 

 Galileo was alternately taken from dungeon to palace 

 that he might realize which course was best for him 

 to pursue : oppose the Church or uphold it. Thus we 

 see that there was some truth in the statement that 

 "he dined daily with the Pope." 



That the man was subjected to much indignity, all the 

 world now knows. The official records are in the Vat- 

 ican and the attempt to conceal them longer is out of 

 the question. Wise Churchmen no longer deny the 

 blunders of the past, but they say with Cardinal Satolli, 

 "The enemies of the Church have been o'er-zealous 

 Churchmen." 



On his bended knees, Galileo, a man of three-score 

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