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• Vespers — • Historical article on Evening Prayer, one of the two principal canonical hours Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Vespers     Vespers      …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Vespers (disambiguation) — Vespers may refer to:* Vespers, the Catholic and Orthodox prayer service * Evening Prayer (Anglican), the Anglican liturgy * All Night Vigil, an a cappella composition by Sergei Rachmaninoff * Vespers (composition), a 1968 musical composition by… …   Wikipedia

• Vespers (video game) — Vespers is an interactive fiction game written in 2005 by Jason Devlin that placed first at the 2005 Interactive Fiction Competition. It also won the XYZZY Awards for Best Game, Best NPCs, Best Setting, and Best Writing.ummarySet in a 15th… …   Wikipedia

• Vespers — Ves pers, n. pl. [OF. vespres, F. v[^e]pres, LL. vesperae, fr. L. vespera evening. See {Vesper}, n.] (R. C. Ch.) (a) One of the little hours of the Breviary. (b) The evening song or service. [1913 Webster] {Sicilian vespers}. See under {Sicilian} …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Vespers, Music of — • Applies especially to the cathedral Office, i.e., the Liturgy of the Hours in a parish setting Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006 …   Catholic encyclopedia

• Vespers, Sicilian — • The traditional name given to the insurrection which broke out at Palermo on Easter Tuesday, 31 March, 1282, against the domination of Charles of Anjou Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006 …   Catholic encyclopedia

• vespers — ► NOUN ▪ a service of evening prayer, especially in the Western Christian Church. ORIGIN Latin vesperas evensong …   English terms dictionary

• Vespers — For other uses, see Vespers (disambiguation). Benedictine monks singing Vespers on Holy Saturday Vespers is the evening prayer service in the Western Catholic, Eastern (Byzantine) Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, and Lutheran liturgies… …   Wikipedia

• Vespers —    1) The major hour of the divine office of the Roman Catholic rite sung in the evening. Sundays and important feasts are allotted two vespers services, a first vespers that begins the feast on the preceding evening and second vespers that… …   Historical dictionary of sacred music

• vespers — ves·pers also Ves·pers (vĕsʹpərz) pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) 1. Ecclesiastical. a. The sixth of the seven canonical hours. b. A worship service held in the late afternoon or evening in many Western Christian churches. c. The time of… …   Universalium

• Vespers of 1610 — (Vespro della Beata Vergine)    A setting of a Roman Catholic vespers composed by Claudio Monteverdi and published in Venice in 1610. The scoring of the 13 movements (not including an alternate, simpler six voiced Magnifi cat and a six voiced… …   Historical dictionary of sacred music