hello, About canonical hours, I read that they were called so, while the monks had to sing their prayers in "canon". Did anybody read this ? More informations are better than only one.
These hours were established by St Benoit of Nurcie, himself looking to old militarian roman army times. vigiles, before sun set matines 5h30 aurora prime (suppressed in 1971 Vatican II) sun set laudes 7h15 tierce, between morning and midi 9h sexte 13 h (midi) in French, this time gave the word "sieste" (a little sleep after eating) none 13h50 vêpres 17 h sun down complies 20h30 aurora midnight Hope this helps Alain MORY 48°N 7°20 > "fer j. de vries" a écrit : > > Mario, > > Thanks for your comment and improvement of what I wrote. > > Best wishes, Fer. > > Fer J. de Vries > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.iae.nl/users/ferdv/ > Eindhoven, Netherlands > lat. 51:30 N long. 5:30 E > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Mario Arnaldi > To: Anselmo Pérez Serrada > Cc: Sundial, Mailinglist > Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 10:59 PM > Subject: Re: Book by Cousins > > Unequal hour: > As Fer wrote. > > Canonical hour: > I would like to improve the definition of Fer. Fer described > quikly the shape of an usual so called mass-dial, but not > all the mass-dial are always showing canonical hours, I mean > canonical hours are only seven moments of the ancient lenght > of the day (from sunrise to sunset), they were prime, terce, > sext, nones, vespers and compline. Only these moments are > canonical hours, but we use to consider them grouped by > three hours a time. Because this kind of sundial were used > by the Church we use to call them canonical sundials > > Planetary hour: > As Fer wrote. Alessandro Gunella wrote time ago an > article on this subject, I have it in electronic > format (italian language) if you like. > > Mario > -------------------------------------------------------- > Mario Arnaldi > V.le Leonardo, 82 > I-48020 LIDO ADRIANO - Ravenna > Italy > > E-Mai:l [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Web Site: http://digilander.iol.it/McArdal > Shop: http://web.tiscalinet.it/McArdal > -----------------------------------------------------------
