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)