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Quite the opposite. He was called a heretic and given a choice of renouncing his beliefs or being excommunicated from the church, which would guarantee him a place in hell. He recanted his helio-centric statements, but in 1993, 351 years after his death, the Catholic Church officially decided his views were correct.

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