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The story behind the Timns or the
anthem story. Night of peace, night

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of peace, night of love.
Everything sleeps around among the stars that spread

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their hairy light announcing the little Jesus
Shine, the star of peace. Shine,

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the star of peace. The night
of peace was composed by Joseph More

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in a thousand eight hundred and sixteen
and performed for the first time on December

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24, 18th in the Church of
St Nicholas the Overdorf, Austria. The

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arrangement was made by organist Frank Saber
Grouber. The day of his first public

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performance. Only Moore and Gruber sang
accompanied by the guitar. The melody currently

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used varies slightly from the original.
The church where Peace Night was sang for

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the first time was demolished at the
beginning of the 20th century because a flood

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left it useless. However, a
chapel was built in honor of this carol,

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with the name of Memorial Chapel Night
of Peace, to which tourists from

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all over the world go, especially
on December 25. This carol has been

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translated into over 300 languages. During
the Christmas truce of nineteen hundred and fourteen,

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English and German soldiers sang this hymn
simultaneously in English and German, in

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a historical fact or s in which
the spirit of Christmas was stronger than the

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hard fight of World War I.