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...la persécution de Gallilée prenait origine dans le fait que les idées de ce dernier mettaient en danger la réforme du calendrier de Pâques que l'Église tentait d'appliquer :

In 1582, Pope Gregory XIII established our modern calendar and fixed the rules determining the date of Easter. This year, Easter falls on April 11, but it can shift from year to year by as much as a month on Gregory's calendar.(...)For reasons both biblical and astronomical, Easter is defined as the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after the vernal equinox (the first day of spring). To get his calendar rules right, Pope Gregory had to rely on some of the best astronomers and mathematicians of his day. Ironically, one of these was Nicolas Copernicus, whose sun-centered astronomy engendered one of history's most famous clashes between science and religion(...)At first, Copernicus's work was warmly accepted by Church officials--but only because they didn't take it seriously(...)More important, Church scholars held that the true structure of the world is established not by science but by official interpretation of Scripture. Hence, they regarded the motion of the Earth as nothing more than a convenient mathematical assumption--an idea justified solely by its utility in making astronomical predictions. Thinking they could evade a clash between reason and revelation, they denied the reality of the Earth's motion but used the Copernican theory nonetheless.(...)This contradiction became inescapable decades after the Gregorian reform when Galileo removed the objections from common sense by explaining the physics of the moving Earth(...)Less frequently acknowledged is the utter hypocrisy of that act: the Church persecuted Galileo for defending the very ideas on which its Easter reform depended.

Pour en savoir plus sur l'évenement historique qu'est la réforme du calendrier de Pâques qui est devenu notre calendrier moderne.