The story behind the world’s favourite carol - Silent Night - is one of the best known, but it’s also surrounded by all sorts of legend and misunderstanding.
You’ve probably heard the story of the mouse chewing through the organ bellows – well I’m sorry but it’s not true. But never mind – the truth is just as interesting.
We’re in the village church appropriately dedicated to St. Nicholas in Oberndorf in the Austrian Alps. On Christmas Eve 1818, the 26-year old assistant pastor, Joseph Mohr,