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Vespers (disambiguation)

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Vespers are the evening prayers part of the Catholic, Orthodox, or Lutheran prayer service.

Vespers may also refer to:

Literature

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  • "Vespers", a poem in W. H. Auden's "Horæ Canonicæ" sequence, published in The Shield of Achilles (1955)
  • "Vespers", a 1990 novel by Ed McBain
  • "Vespers", a poem in A. A. Milne's 1924 collection When We Were Very Young

Music

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History

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As a euphemistic term for massacres of specific population groups:

  • Asiatic Vespers, the killing of Romans in Asia Minor in 88 BC by Mithridates VI of Pontus
  • Niçard Vespers, the three days of popular uprising of the inhabitants of Nice in 1871 in favour of the union of the County of Nice with the Kingdom of Italy
  • Sicilian Vespers, the killing of the French in Sicily in 1282 by the Ghibellines
  • Sardinian Vespers, anti-Piedmont insurrection in Sardinia in 1794
  • Adana massacre, the killing of (mainly Armenian) Christians by Muslims in 1909, sometimes called the Cilician Vespers
  • Jérémie Vespers, the killing of the relatives of Haitian insurgents by government forces in 1964

Other uses

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See also

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