There's some misinformation here. Niccolò Matas was not Jewish, and Galileo died in good standing with the Church and was never, in fact, denied Christian burial.
It's not misinformation. Pretty much every article I read said that Matas was in fact, Jewish. The Pope denied Galileo proper burial in a church and he was buried in an unmarked grave in Santa Croce Church. 92 years later, he was buried in a better burial place.
Matas's Jewish ethnicity is speculative at best. I am unaware of any scholarship that refers to this without very serious qualification. As for Galileo, there's no such thing in Catholicism as "proper burial in a church." Burials in churches are not the norm, and non-burial in a church does not constitute lack of Christian burial. Christian burial refers to ecclesiastical-liturgical funeral rites and burial in consecrated ground. Galileo was never denied this, nor would there by any reason to, as he was a perfectly orthodox Catholic who died in good standing with the Church. What he was initially denied was burial with special honors. (His initial grave also wasn't unmarked; how else do you think he ended up in a more worthy tomb? lol)
@@PaxVobiscum01 I am unaware of any scholarship that claims him not to be Jewish. It is generally accepted that he was a Sephardic Jew. He requested to be buried in Santa Croce which was awkward because he was not baptised. A compromise was reached with an act of parliament allowing his body to be moved and buried just outside the church under the steps.
I was in Florence not long ago and we passed by Santa Cruz, but didn't know who was buried inside. I recited the Divine comedy in Italian when I saw that statue. Most of the tourists were Korean women and had never heard of Dante, Michael Angelo or Galileo...so didn't care to go inside.
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Palazzo is pronounced 'palatso'. Think 'pizza'.
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There's some misinformation here. Niccolò Matas was not Jewish, and Galileo died in good standing with the Church and was never, in fact, denied Christian burial.
It's not misinformation. Pretty much every article I read said that Matas was in fact, Jewish. The Pope denied Galileo proper burial in a church and he was buried in an unmarked grave in Santa Croce Church. 92 years later, he was buried in a better burial place.
Matas's Jewish ethnicity is speculative at best. I am unaware of any scholarship that refers to this without very serious qualification. As for Galileo, there's no such thing in Catholicism as "proper burial in a church." Burials in churches are not the norm, and non-burial in a church does not constitute lack of Christian burial. Christian burial refers to ecclesiastical-liturgical funeral rites and burial in consecrated ground. Galileo was never denied this, nor would there by any reason to, as he was a perfectly orthodox Catholic who died in good standing with the Church. What he was initially denied was burial with special honors. (His initial grave also wasn't unmarked; how else do you think he ended up in a more worthy tomb? lol)
@@PaxVobiscum01 I am unaware of any scholarship that claims him not to be Jewish. It is generally accepted that he was a Sephardic Jew. He requested to be buried in Santa Croce which was awkward because he was not baptised. A compromise was reached with an act of parliament allowing his body to be moved and buried just outside the church under the steps.
@@barrysteven5964: On that point I evidently stand corrected. I must have confused Matas with someone else! Thank you for rectifying my error.
I was in Florence not long ago and we passed by Santa Cruz, but didn't know who was buried inside. I recited the Divine comedy in Italian when I saw that statue. Most of the tourists were Korean women and had never heard of Dante, Michael Angelo or Galileo...so didn't care to go inside.