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  • The Origin of Silent Night - A Christmas Carol is Born

    12/20/2005 4:15:24 PM PST · by Aussie Dasher · 16 replies · 1,259+ views
    LifeSiteNews ^ | 21 December 2005 | Fr. Bernard Heffernan
    For 22 years I looked after the spiritual needs of senior citizen homes. Volunteers helped. Among them was Anna Cairnduf, a lady who hails from a mountain town in Austria. She's the grand niece of Father Joseph Mohr, the writer of the Christmas carol "Silent Night" which for a long time was ignored. Why? Great music is expected from great cities and great Cathedrals but hardly from a poor, cold, drafty little mountain church, where a few days before Christmas in 1818, a hungry mouse chewed through the bellows of the old organ, silencing it. Oh no! No music for...