Today it was 06:19 when Pyrois, Eous, Aethon, and Phlegon bore the chariot of Helios into the view of Rome.
At 19:59 the same “Fiery One”, “He of the Dawn”, “Blazing” and “Burning” will take dimming cart into West.
The Ave Maria Bells is slated to chime at 20:15.
In the Novus reckoning this is the Feast of St. Anselm of Canterbury, Doctor of the Church (+1109). What would he think about Canterbury now?
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Francis died one year ago, today.
Happy birthday Rome. Rome was founded on 21 April 753BC pic.twitter.com/1NldfOxX3c
— Roman History (@romanhistory1) April 21, 2026
Yes, today is the 2779th Birthday of Rome!
Alme Sol, curru nitido diem qui
promis et celas aliusque et idem
nasceris, possis nihil urbe Roma
visere maius.
Q. Horatius Flaccus
Carmen Saeculare
A reason to post the sunrise and sunset while in Rome.
In the great church of St. Augustine here in Rome you will find near the door to the sacristy the the funerary monument of the scholar Onofrio Panvinio (1529 Verona – 1568 Palermo). He figured out the dating of the founding of Rome, the dates we often see with the abbreviation A.U.C. (Ab Urbe Condita). As you know that condita comes from condo, condere, cónditum and not condio, condíre, condítum. If not, we would be saying “From the (year) the City was pickled” rather than “From the (year) the City was founded”. We get “condiments” from the later. In Latin it is good to get the accents right, as in the Vespers hymn Cónditor alme siderum, just to throw another “alme” in today for spice.
Admire his stony countenance captured in cold marble, and say a prayer for the repose of his soul.
Onofrio was an Augustinian and great scholar. He is the author of such page turners as the 1557 work Fasti et triumphi Rom. a Romulo rege vsque ad Carolum V. Caes. Aug.:Sive epitome regum, consulum, dictatorum, magistror. equitum, tribunorum militum consulari potestate, censorum, impp. & aliorum magistratuum Roman. cum orientalium tum occidentalium, ex antiquitatum monumentis maxima cum fide ac diligentia desumpta. A ripping yarn!
Here is his monument inscription. Go ahead and take a crack at it!
D.O.M.
F. ONVPHRIO PANVINIO VERONENSI
EREMITÆ AVGVSTINIANO
VIRO AD OMNES ET ROMANAS
ET ECCLESIASTICAS ANTIQVITATES
E TENEBRIS ERVENDAS NATO
QVI ALEXANDR FARN. CARD. VICECAN.
IN SICILIAM PROSEQVVTUS ALIENISSIMO
ET SIBI ET HISTORIÆ TEMPORE
PANORMI OBIIT XVIII KAL. APR. MDLXVIII
PRÆCLARIS MVLTIS ET PERFECTIS
ET INCHOATIS INDVSTRIÆ SVÆ
MONVMENTIS RELICTIS VIX. ANN. XXXIX.
AMICI HONORIS CAVSSA POSVERUNT.
And take a crack at this.
White to move and mate in 4.
NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.
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