‘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.

Would you do me a thoughtful favor of sending this poem to as many people ... I watched him for hours, so silent and still. I noticed he shivered from the cold night's chill.

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.

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 ...