Silent Night Society´s appeal during the Christmas period:
"embrace and use all six verses of the carol - as a godsend and as a message to the world!" President Neureiter: "Spread the word of the complete carol with its message!". "This carol of worldwide-peace is a gift and carries a message. "Silent Night" was written with six verses, but it is usually shortened to three only!
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Silent Night Postage Stamp 2011: Organ builder Karl Mauracher
President Neureiter: "Fügen is the `link` with the rest of the world for the famous Christmas Carol". The Silent Night postage stamp 2011, designed by Peter Mader, shows an oil painting of Karl Mauracher by an unknown artist.
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"Silent Night! - the Christmas carol" on the national list of UNESCO intangible cultural heritage
President Neureiter:
"We want to convey the carol, its origins and its message into the hearts and minds of the national population and visitors from all over the world!"
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Seasons greetings from Oberndorf, the "Silent Night" - town
Special "Silent Night Postmark 2011". The special Christmas postmark 2011 is titled "10th Anniversary of a town". The Silent Night town of Oberndorf, where the famous Christmas Carol was sung for the first time, is celebrating the 10-year anniversary of its status as a town.
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Latest publication of the Silent Night Association
Silent Night
The Autographs of Joseph Mohr and Franz Xaver Gruber
With documents to the history of the carol
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Archbishop of Salzburg Dr. Alois Kothgasser has taken up our pleading
Archbishop of Salzburg Dr. Alois Kothgasser has taken up our pleading: He has appealed to the authorities of the new edition of the catholic prayer- and song-book "Gotteslob" to include all six verses of "our" carol.
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DVD available: Silent Night, Holy Night: A Message of Peace
The Austrian TV (ORF) produced together with Sony Salzburg a DVD with contents of 7 and 17 minutes of the "Silent Night" documentation in 8 various languages.
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Brochure of the Silent Night Society
The Silent Night Society are issuing a new brochure under the title "Silent Night, Holy Night - the carol which touched the hearts of the world", which will be available in German and English.
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English version of "Silent Night" as published by John Young in 1859.
Bishop John Freeman Young?s (1820 ? 1885) english translation of "Silent Night" is the version mostly sung in the USA.
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Silent Night Memorial Celebration LIVE online
Click www.stillenacht.info and visit LIVE the Silent Night Memorial Celebration in Oberndorf on the 24th of December (5.00 p.m. MEZ; 4.00 p.m. UTC; 11.00 a.m US EST - east coast; 8.
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