Placide Cappeau took the new song back to his home town of Roquemaure, where it was first performed at a midnight Mass on Christmas Eve ... “O Holy Night” is one of the most dramatically ...

The all-but-defeated German army launched a great offensive along the 85-mile front of Ardennes forest in Belgium. The Battle of the Bulge was the last great advance of ...

I had a dream last night where I walked into a building and suddenly I was a small child again on Christmas Eve. “Oh, Holy Night” was playing on the record player, and the light from the tree cast ...

Christmas Eve occupies a special place on the Hasidic calendar as a kind of “silent night,” when Torah study ceases — and then resumes full force at midnight. NEW YORK (JTA) – Christmas is ...

Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve at Holy Name Cathedral drew a large crowd Tuesday night. Christmas caroling kicked off about 11:20 p.m. and Archbishop of Chicago, Cardinal Blasé Cupich lead the ...

These are sung from the Holy Day of "Vavedenje" on the December 4, until the January 13, which is the Day of the New Year and is often called Small Christmas. Just as New Years Eve is celebrated ...

Cappeau took the new song back to his hometown of Roquemaure, where it was first performed at a midnight mass on Christmas Eve, 1847. The American music critic John Sullivan Dwight translated the ...