(Gr Esperinos; Sl Litiya) An important service of the Orthodox Church, held in the evening, which is mainly a Thanksgiving prayer for the closing day and a welcome of the new one to come the following morning On the eve of an important holiday, the Vesper Service includes Artoclasia or the blessing of the five loaves (Gr artos; Sl Litiya) for health and the well-being of the faithful
Last activity of the evening at PACAA Time for reflection and winding down; may be in many formats, the most popular of which is a reading, a song, and a handout
Traditionally one of the eight monastic hours of prayer, which the first English prayer book combined with other afternoon and evening offices to make the service of Evening Prayer
Prayers said in the evening; the church service at which these prayers are said The Marian Vespers are prayers and meditations relating to the Virgin Mary
(1282) Massacre of the French that began a Sicilian revolt against the Angevin king Charles I. Backed by Peter III of Aragon, the rising broke out when Sicilians killed some insulting French soldiers at vespers in the church of Santo Spirito in Palermo. The people of the city followed suit and massacred 2,000 of its French inhabitants. All of Sicily soon revolted and sought help from the Aragonese, and the war became a French-Aragonese struggle for possession of Sicily. The conflict was finally resolved when the Sicilians chose Frederick III, brother of the king of Aragon, as their ruler in 1302