‘Silent Night’ is one of the world’s most famous Christmas melodies ... A few years before, he had written a rather beautiful poem called ‘Stille Nacht’. So, he asked Franz Xavez Gruber, a ...

(It was later replaced with the Silent Night Chapel.) An organ builder who ... reveals that Mohr wrote the poem in 1816 when he was assigned to a small church in Mariapfarr, Austria.

When Mohr contemplated a silent Christmas night, he remembered that he had written a poem two years back. He also remembered his friend Franz Xavier Gruber, a school teacher and his church organist.

Gruber obliged, and on Christmas Eve in Oberndorf’s St Nicholas Church, Mohr played the new melody on his guitar while they both sang Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht – Silent Night, Holy Night.

Saint John of the Cross had decided to enter a silent monastery ... The Sun presents “One Darkest Night,” translated by the award-winning Rhina P. Espaillat (whose own poem “Prosody” appeared earlier ...