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Encyclopedia Americana. "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear” is the work of Edmund H. Sears, a Unitarian minister in Massachusetts, more than a century ago. Perhaps the most famous of Christmas carols, "Silent Night” was first sung on Christmas Eve, 1818, to guitar music.

Mice in the bellows had silenced the organ of a tiny Austrian church. Father Joseph Mohr met the challenge by writing "Silent Night.” His organist composed a melody for guitar.

Father Mohr’s inspirationaside from the mice-t-was the* vast, still beauty of the snowy mountains around the village.

"Oh come, all ye faithful” is translated from the Latin,

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