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He then told me a memorable circumstance concerning the great Cardinal Bellarmine of saintly memory.
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Old Cardinal Bellarmine roared like a lion.
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Even so great a man as Cardinal Bellarmine exerted himself in vain against this new tide of unreason.
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The greatest thinker of his time journeyed to Rome and faced the greatest theologian of his day, Cardinal Bellarmine.
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And Galileo accordingly, in dread of prison, appeared before Cardinal Bellarmine and declared that he would renounce the doctrines he had defended.