thumb|Opening verse of matins Nocturns (Latin: nocturni or nocturna) is a Christian canonical hour said in the nighttime.
thumb|Opening verse of matins Nocturns (Latin: nocturni or nocturna) is a Christian canonical hour said in the nighttime.
In the liturgy of the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church, nocturns refer to the sections into which the canonical hour of Matins was divided from the fourth or fifth century until after the Second Vatican Council.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).