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The Inspiring Story of Silent Night

He was illegitimate, grew up in a hangman’s cottage, and he wrote the words for ‘Silent Night’. His mother’s name was Anna Schoiberin. His father was a mercenary soldier and deserter called Franz Mohr, who never saw him. The hangman provided accommodation in his house for single mothers and their children, as he was trying […]