Vespers (disambiguation)
Vespers is the Catholic and Orthodox prayer service.
Vespers may also refer to:
Religion
- Evening Prayer (Anglican), the Anglican liturgy
History
- Asiatic Vespers, a massacre of Roman citizens during the Mithridatic Wars
- War of the Sicilian Vespers, a rebellion in Sicily in 1282 against King Charles I
- Sicilian Vespers, event that started the War of the Sicilian Vespers
Art, entertainment, and media
Music
- All-Night Vigil (Rachmaninoff), a 1915 a cappella choral setting of the Orthodox prayer service by Sergei Rachmaninoff
- I Vespri Siciliani ("The Sicilian Vespers") an 1855 opera by Giuseppe Verdi based on events of the thirteenth-century rebellion in Sicily
- Vespers (album) an album by soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy
- Vespers (composition), a 1968 musical composition by Alvin Lucier
- Vespers of 1610 (composition), full title Vespro della Beata Vergine (Vespers for the Blessed Virgin), a composition by late-Renaissance/early-Baroque composer Claudio Monteverdi
Books and Literature
- "Vespers", a 1990 novel by Ed McBain
- Vespers are a society in The 39 Clues book series that causes evil.
Poetry
- "Vespers", one of the poems in W.H. Auden's series "Horae Canonicae" published in The Shield of Achilles (1955)
- "Vespers", a poem in A.A. Milne's collection When We Were Very Young (1924)
Video games
- Vespers (video game), a 2005 Interactive Fiction title by Jason Devlin
See also
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