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), an 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

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

• Vesper (disambiguation)