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Vigil (liturgy)
Night prayer service / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In Christian liturgy, a vigil is, in origin, a religious service held during the night leading to a Sunday or other feastday.[1] The Latin term vigilia, from which the word is derived meant a watch night, not necessarily in a military context, and generally reckoned as a fourth part of the night from sunset to sunrise. The four watches or vigils were of varying length in line with the seasonal variation of the length of the night.
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