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Father Secchi refused at once. He said I was to meet him at the Church of St. Ignasio at one and a half hours before Ave Marie, and he would conduct me through the church into the observatory. My servant might come into the church with me. The Ave Marie bell rings half an hour after sunset. "At the appointed time, the next fine day, and all days seem to be fine, we set out on our mission.
"COLLEGIO ROMANO; SECCHI. There was another observatory which had a reputation and was known in America. It was the observatory of the Collegio Romano, and was in the monastery behind the Church of St. Ignasio. Its director was the Father Secchi who had visited the United States, and was well known to the scientists of this country.
Ignasio was built, and the monastery on whose walls the instruments of the modern observatory stand. "It is a very singular fact, but one which seems to show that even in science 'the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church, that the spot where Galileo was tried is very near the site of the present observatory, to which the pope was very liberal.
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