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.

https://youtu.be/wMbmhlGqJHI

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

https://classroom.synonym.com/the-significance-of-the-number-of-rings-from-a-church-bell-12080898.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.