It’s difficult to imagine today, but there was a time when “Silent Night” was not virtually synonymous with Christmas. As recently as the nineteenth-century, Christmas was not widely celebrated in the ...

Franz Xaver Gruber and Joseph Mohr are best known for composing the timeless Christmas carol Silent Night. Gruber, a schoolteacher and church organist, composed the melody, while Mohr, a young priest, ...

“Silent Night” occupies a somewhat unique status as what anthropologists call a sacred or inalienable object—your grandmother’s wedding ring, the Constitution, or the family portrait we carry in our ...

The Silent Night Chapel, which is in the town of Oberndorf in the Austrian state of Salzburg, is a monument to the Christmas carol "Silent Night." The chapel stands on the site of the former St.

A few nights ago, on the first really cold night in Virginia, I walked past a woman on the streets of Alexandria who was playing an instrument and singing all the verses to “Silent Night.” There was, ...

Millions of Americans participate in the long-held tradition of listening to Christmas songs and singing Christmas carols each December – and the numbers prove it. Fox News Digital took a look at the ...

But be sure to quiet down a moment this Christmas and listen once again to that exquisite queen of carols, “Silent Night.” It’s 200 years old this year, the little song about the sacred tableaux of ...

There are bound to come times during this holiday season when the lambently numinous opening notes of “Silent Night” make their way towards your inner ear, with you scarcely noticing them. Call it the ...

Joseph Franz Mohr (1792–1848) was an Austrian priest and lyricist of the beloved Christmas carol “Silent Night.” Born in Salzburg to humble beginnings, Mohr was drawn to faith and music from a young ...

There are many different aspects of Christmas that make the season wonderful: family, food, gifts, parties, decorations et al. But the most special part of the Yuletide, the true meaning of the period ...

TALLAHASSEE (WCTV) -- The popular Christmas carol 'Silent Night' is now 200 years old. The carol was penned by a priest in Austria and sung for the first time back In 1818. It was translated into ...

On Christmas Eve in 1818, two men with a small guitar entered a church in Oberndorf, Austria, and prepared to sing a new Christmas carol. Times had been bad in Oberndorf, where many people worked on ...