Vespers (disambiguation) explained

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

Vespers may also refer to:

Literature

• "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

• The Vespers, a musical group from Nashville
• Vespers (album), by saxophonist Steve Lacy
• Vespers, an alternative title of the 1915 composition All-Night Vigil by Rachmaninoff
• Vespers, a 1968 composition by Alvin Lucier

History

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

• Vespers (video game), a 2005 interactive fiction game by Jason Devlin
• Vespers, a society in The 39 Clues book series that causes evil

See also

• Sicilian Vespers (disambiguation)
• Vesper (disambiguation)