> I am really impressed by your tour-de-force on canonical hours. It is > really valuable and full of erudition. I'll read your articles in more > detail... ---------------
No, I should thank you all for the patience, and read my long emails. Of course it is not all about canonical hours, but I think it could be enough for many. I really hope no one of you got bored by me. ---------------- > And, by the way, changing a bit the topic: yesterday it was St. Bede's > Day and I wondered who is the Gnomonists' Saint Patron, perhaps him? > Does anybody know something about this? ---------------- About gnomonist's patron: time ago a friend of mine, Giovanni Paltrinieri, here in Italy tryed to plead in Vatican for Saint John the Baptist, because in the gospel he uses word with a solstitial meaning, and actually the Church celebrate him in that period. But he didn't succede in his plead. They told him that the saint should be a gnomonist or at list to have anough to do with gnomonics. So now he started to plead for Pope Saint Pio the 10th, actually he was a gnomonist. I don't know if Beda may be considered a gnomonist, we don't have nothing by him expressly dedicated to gnomonics. The "Libellum mensura horologii", in spite there is someone that believe it written by him, seems not from him by scholars (maybe is from Abbo of Fleury). I, in the past, thought about Pope Silvester the second, he was one of the most important gnomonist of the medieval christian times, but I forgot he was not a saint. Mario -------------------------------------------------------- Mario Arnaldi V.le Leonardo, 82 I-48020 LIDO ADRIANO - Ravenna Lat. 44° 25' N - Lon. 12° 12' E Italy E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://digilander.iol.it/McArdal Shop: http://web.tiscalinet.it/McArdal ----------------------------------------------------------- -
