Like several of us, I watched the live stream of the vatican blackout event this morning. One thing that most people have neglected in talking about this event is that you can hear the bells ringing near the end of the blackout. I had commented on it right away, but I think my comments haven't been noted.
I found a link that show a clip of the live feed where you can here the bells start at the 2:20 mark, then pauses for 8 seconds at the 2:40 mark, then resumes at 2:48 mark and continues through the end of the clip.
I noted my local time for the start of the bell as 2:00an ATL and 7:00am Rome. The bells continued to ring until 2:23am ATL or 7:23 Rome. 23 minutes of continuous ring.
In my comments, I noted that the ringing had started after the lights started coming on. But this video show the ring started before the staircase first became lit.
I've been searching for more information about why those bells would be ringing. So far, these links are the only thing substantial
https://classroom.synonym.com/differences-between-the-anglican-catholic-rosary-12084844.html
This one talks about extended ringing.
https://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=15709
So what would cause this ringing to start and go on for 23 minutes?
I tried to analyze the ring but I don't have the right equipment to do this from the video. The first set does sound like 4 tolls, a slight pause, followed by 7 peals... I assume for 7am, but what of the ringing that occurs after 8 seconds. Its not melodic as far as I can tell.
Perhaps it was a glitch from the outage
I'd like to get some clarity on this.
The power was indeed on the whole time. Do you leave all the lights on in your house at night when you’re sleeping? Probably not. Neither do they. The only difference in last nights live stream is that the camera wasn’t in night mode. It was filming in visible light. Which is what you would see if you were standing out there in the dark, at night. The whole thing was a nothingbuger. Just noise that people wasted their creativity and time pondering on.
Yeah, the police cars around and flashlights you see around the basilica are probably a non thing burger as well, huh?
Never saw any flashlights. Do you have a time stamp? The flashing lights that flashed all night along the entrance, in the exact same spot, are safety lights at the entrance and along the path. Not people.
How do you explain the live stream having power and the street lights and the lights in the windows?
The power grid can easily not jump across streets in certain areas. Hell, when I have a black out sometime across the street is fine. And I’m in a subdivision.
Ok. So here’s how we can settle this. Let’s pull up the live stream tonight after it’s dark there and see if it looks exactly the same as last night. Fair?
Bingo!
Ok, here you go, brother.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCDr9ft0Ym4&feature=emb_logo&ab_channel=VaticanNews-English
And wouldn't you know it people are already posting that the Vatican is blacked out again. And saying that those flashing lights are policeman. They're obviously not.
Ok. So here’s how we can settle this. Let’s pull up the live stream tonight after it’s dark there and see if it looks exactly the same as last night. Fair?
???
Nothing. They turn most of the lights out at night when they sleep.
Look at "The significance of..." link, under announcement. Deaths are announced by a slow knell, then one peal for each year of age. Francis' doctor, msybe? He was 78. Time is also announced by number of peals too. Maybe counting peals is more informative than duration.
The seven peels only occurred in the first 20 seconds. Why have 22+ more minutes of bell ringing?
If you are sounding a death notice for someone 78 years old, you would ring it 78 times. Have to do that about every 20 seconds to be done in 23 minutes. The introduction is slower and deeper. There is a lot of lore about bells I don't know, though. Like change ringing.
Does it mean there's a new Pope?
I mention that as a possibility in my post above.
I had found so little information about when the Vatican used their bells. My post is actually seeking more information about when and why the vatican uses it bells.