On this Roman day the sun rose at 5:54.
It just set at 20:20 according to the Curia, or in terms of just plain Rome 20:18.
The Ave Maria… will it begin to ring again? … in the 20:30 cycle. If we are sticking to solar time it will ring at 20:48. I’ll try to catch the chime of the Ave Maria from the new and super cool app. More on that below.
It is the Feast of St. Isaiah, Old Testament Prophet.
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Here is a detail of the sacristy at The Parish™.
Vidimus aquam.
In church, however, on the Marian altar, you can see the final products of what I showed you yesterday, when Mighty Pippo was constructing them at his place in the Campo de’ Fiori.
In Warsaw, alas my guy Wesley has fallen behind a bit in the Blitz phase, while Fabiano Caruana and two others charged forward.
White mates in 4. Easy.
’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.
More about the super cool Ave Maria Clock App. I’ve been in contact with its maker. He did some research to pinpoint the place which is used in official reports for sunrise and sunset (which vary from what are on the curial calendar by a couple minutes). He found this:
What you are looking at is the Piazza della Repubblica, and the locator marker is in front of the facade of the Basilica Santa Maria degli Angeli. What I right away remarked is that church is where the official sun clock was by which Rome knew solar noon. The analemma on the floor is on that side of the church as you enter.
Back in the day when the sunbeam struck the analemma, a flag would be raised and, spied from atop the Janiculum Hill on the other side of the Tiber, a cannon was fired. To this day, every day at civil (not solar) noon, a cannon is fired from the hill.
Coincidence?
John L. Heilbron has a book on churches and cathedrals as solar observatories. It is called The Sun In The Church. Very cool.
The app’s creator is adding more features, including the Roman day and the lunar computus.
As promised… here’s the app ringing the “Ave Maria” at 20:48:
