The Story Behind the Carol: Silent Night
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87q5dmW6zDg On Christmas Eve of 1818 the young priest of St. Nicholas parish church in Obendorf faced disaster. The organ had been incapacitated by mice. The chance of fixing the instrument before the evening service was nil. Father Joseph Mohr was not a man to just give up however. He pulled out a poem he…