Vatican II was a time of great change in the Catholic Church, as it allowed for a modernization of the entire liturgy of the church. Being Catholic, at that time, represented being modernized together with the church and this affected the entire religious life of these individuals, who from Vatican II would participate in the masses, would have a full view of the altar, heard the mass in the vernacular and would see a church more globalized and tolerant, even with women who would not need such a rigid dress during masses.
The young astronomer gave up his studies in 1676 and sailed to St. Helena in the South Atlantic where he catalogued 341 stars in the Southern Hemisphere and discovered a star cluster in Centaurus.
