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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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- Presentation of the "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. The photo of this oil painting (from the private collection of Martin Reiter, Reith in Alpbachtal) comes from the museum, Heimathaus, in Hochburg-Ach, where Franz Xaver Gruber was born in 1787. Furthermore on the stamp, next to the portrait of Mauracher is a print of the plans for the Oberndorf church organ, built in 1825 also by Mauracher. This print belongs to the Reiter collection, too.
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- History of origins
Information about the History of Origins of "Silent Night" (12 pages).
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- 2009: DVD available: Silent Night, Holy Night: A Message of Peace
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- 2008: Silent Night Association presented new publication
Silent Night The Autographs of Joseph Mohr and Franz Xaver Gruber With documents to the history of the carol 190 years ago, on Christmas eve of the year 1818, the Christmas carol Silent Night was performed for the first time by its authors, the priest Joseph Mohr and teacher and organist Franz Xaver Gruber "to great acclaim" for matins at the old St. Nikolaus Church at Oberndorf. Publication in German and English language. 64 pages, 17 facsimiles, 8 figures, 17 pages of score Strube Verlag, Edition 9073, Munich 2008. ISBN 978 3 89912 119 3 Please call for your personal press copy: Silent Night Association, Renate Schaffenberger, Tel. +43 (0) 664-9309919 or info@silentnight.at
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- "Silent Night" the Debut in the USA
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- Bishop John Freeman Young.
"SILENT NIGHT" WAS HIS GIFT TO THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING NATIONS John Freeman Young (1820-1885) became the Second (Episcopal) Bishop of Florida in 1867. He was born in Pittston, Maine on October 30, 1820. Little has been discovered of his boyhood and early education. He studied at Wesleyan seminaries in Maine and Connecticut and, after converting to the Episcopal faith; he studied at the Theological Seminary at Alexandria, Virginia. A month after graduation in 1845 he was sent to his first post as a deacon at St. John´s Church in Jacksonville, Florida. The state was still a wilderness and John Young was one of only two Episcopal churchmen in Florida at that time. On January 11, 1846, the Rt. Rev. Stephen Elliott, first bishop of Georgia who had been assigned the oversight of Florida, ordained him a priest at St. John´s Church in Tallahassee, Florida.
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- Silent Night as a motif on stamps
Themes of Silent Night are worldwide used as motives for stamps. Please find some examples in our data bank of pictures.
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