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Pick your favorite version of Christmas season favorite ‘Silent Night’

Bob Unruh
By Bob Unruh

“Silent Night,” sung in more than 300 languages on every continent, is 203 years old this Christmas.

Philadelphia radio station WRTI notes it first was sung, with guitar accompaniment, by Austrians attending a Christmas Eve mass in St. Nicholas Church in Oberndorf.

A young priest, Joseph Mohr, wrote the words and Franz Xaver Gruber the melody.

Mohr, on that quiet night in 1818, played the guitar and sang along with Gruber…

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