Catholic Encyclopedia: Nocturns
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Description: The convoluted history of this nighttime prayer.
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Nocturns A very old term applied to night Offices. speaks of nocturnal gatherings (Ad. Uxor., II, iv); , of the nocturnal hours, "nulla sint horis nocturnis precum damna, nulla orationum pigra et ignava dispendia" (De orat., xxix). In the life of Melania the Younger is found the expression "nocturnæ horæ", "nocturna tempora" (Anal. Bolland., VIII, 1889, pp. 49 sq.). In these passages the term signifies night
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