In the end, there could only be one. And while “Silent Night” is as time-honored as they come, it wasn’t enough — “O Holy Night” is the champion carol in our bracket of Christmas classics. Still, the ...

We now know for whom the bell tolls (Sorry, not sorry). It tolls for “Carol of the Bells” which was edged out by “O Holy Night” in our bracket of Christmas ...

In the fall of 1847, a French wine merchant, Placide Cappeau, was asked by his local priest to write a Christmas poem. Not long after, Placide Cappeau showed this poem, “Minuit, chrétiens,” to the ...

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The Tabernacle Choir & Orchestra at Temple Square perform "O Holy Night." The American music critic John Sullivan Dwight translated the lyrics of this carol, one of the most dramatically beautiful ...