Vespers (disambiguation)
Vespers is the Catholic and Orthodox prayer service.
Vespers may also refer to:
Religion
- Evening Prayer (Anglican), the Anglican liturgy, formerly included vespers as the sixth of seven daily prayers
History
- Asiatic Vespers, a massacre of Roman citizens during the Mithridatic Wars
- Sicilian Vespers, an event that started the War of the Sicilian Vespers
- War of the Sicilian Vespers, a rebellion in Sicily in 1282 against King Charles I
Arts, entertainment, and media
Literature
- "Vespers", one of the poems 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 collection When We Were Very Young (1924)
Music
- Vespers (album) an album by soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy
- Vespers, a 1968 musical composition by Alvin Lucier
- 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
- Vespro della Beata Vergine (Vespers for the Blessed Virgin) (1610), a composition by late-Renaissance/early-Baroque composer Claudio Monteverdi
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
- Vespers (video game), a 2005 Interactive Fiction title by Jason Devlin
- Vespers, a society in The 39 Clues book series that causes evil
See also
- Vesper (disambiguation)
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