Posted on 03/18/2016 9:27:32 PM PDT by ebb tide
The lights of the Cupola atop St. Peter’s Basilica are to go dark on the evening of Saturday, March 19th, along with those that illumine Bernini’s colonnade embracing St. Peter’s Square. From 8:30 PM to 9:30 PM in the evening, the lights shall remain dark on the occasion of the 2016 iteration of Earth Hour – an initiative promoted by the World Wildlife Fund International, in which the Vatican City State is participating.
The lights illuminating the two fountains in the Square and the four candelabra surrounding the central obelisk will remain shining, however, along with those that light the two “arms” stretching from either side of the Basilica’s narthex and signed by the two great equestrian statues of Constantine and Charlemagne, north and south, respectively.
The Press Office of the Holy See announced the specifics of Vatican City’s participation in the initiative, which were then reported widely on Friday in the Italian press.
Goofiness
Warning to tourists - watch out for your wallets and your lives on the darkened streets around the Vatican.
Who is responsible for this shite?
Thanks for the reminder to turn all my lights on tomorrow night!
what time on the East Coast ???
I want to knows when to put all the lights in my house on...
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It says 8:30 local time.
The globalists’ most important project is killing the poor, by making energy more expensive through scarcity, taxes, and regulation.
The Pope supports Algore’s schemes, and promotes Algore’s two main lies, that carbon is a “pollutant,” and that man is causing global warming.
This is the first Pope in history to PROMOTE THE MURDER OF A BILLION POOR PEOPLE.
What Francis is doing through support of the global warming hoax and this Commie-green Earth Day nonsense is diminishing the omnipotence of God. If men control the planet, where does God fit in?
I’m waiting for this pope to announce that the God of the Bible doesn’t exist. He has been saying essentially the same thing with his many off-the-cuff remarks.
So here we have yet another saint’s feast day being marred with this pagan blasphemy...AT THE VATICAN.
When will all Catholics realize that ROME HAS LOST THE FAITH?
Just looked up Rome, Italy. The time zone there is GMT+1.
Here in Maryland, on EDT, I am at GMT-4, so it will be 2P for me.
Ping. Feast of St. Joseph, no less....
I’m in your time zone so 2PM this afternoon ???
LOL
“Bright Sunshiny Day” !!!
:)
Of course.
Every week the Vatican becomes an even greater laughing stock than before. Has a day gone by in recent memory when Francis or someone working at his behest didn’t do some crap like this?
Quite the mockery indeed.
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