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In Quebec City, the 17th-century monastery Le Monastère des Augustines provides rooms in the original cloister, breakfast served in silence, workshops in painting and opportunities to hear the nuns singing vespers.
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The Everetts painted the exterior white with trim in teal, gray and vesper violet.
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Every evening at vespers, a different image of the incarnation is invoked.
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The evening begins at 6 p.m. with vespers in the Abbey Church with the Benedictine monks and the Schola Cantorum.
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The program for the 10-year anniversary pilgrimage began with chanted hymn at the start of the conference and ended with vespers Thursday evening celebrated by Benedict’s longtime secretary, Monsignor Georg Gaenswein.
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Full of quotations from his previous works, and from the Russian Orthodox vespers, the score suggests a return to Russia and to the past.
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Origin and Etymology of vesper
Middle English, from Latin, evening, evening star — more at west
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First Known Use: 14th century
in the meaning defined at sense 2
See Words from the same yearFirst Known Use of vesper
1791
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