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 ...

In 1816, near the starving and ruined city of Salzburg, Austria, a 24-year-old priest named Joseph Mohr suffered, along with his parishioners, in the wreckage of the Napoleonic Wars. In that suffering ...

THEY SAY IT’S all the fault of a poor church mouse. It was the winter of 1818 in the village of Oberndorf near the Austrian Bavarian border. It’s a poor region and often the people starve. Like all ...

NEW YORK (AP) — One of the most famous songs of Christmas was celebrated Tuesday as it approaches its 200th anniversary, with a concert at the New York City church where "Silent Night" is believed to ...

From “Silent Night” to “Jingle Bells,” Christmas carols are some of the most familiar songs of the season, and some of the oldest. Stephanie Sy explores why most popular music changes with time, but ...

The Diocese of Lansing in Michigan has released a Christmas video featuring the story of a beloved Christmas carol, a high school student choir, and the beauty of Eucharistic adoration. Created and ...

(WHTM) – Christmas brings Santa, cookies, decorations/lights, gifts, time with family, and Christmas Carols. Christmas Carols originated in 129 AD with “Angels Hymn,” according to Classic FM. Classic ...

There’s only so much you can do with a Christmas carol. They’ve been done to death, leaving any real innovation to those who dare to write new holiday hits. But the carols that have stuck around ...