Not long after, Placide Cappeau showed this poem, “Minuit ... dates from 1855. “O Holy Night” is one of the most dramatically beautiful Christmas carols ever penned but is unfortunately ...

Written by poet Placide Cappeau in 1847, "O Holy Night" is derived from Cappeau's poem Minuit, chrétiens, penned a few years earlier. In 1855, English composer John Sullivan Dwight wrote the ...

In the fall of 1847, a French merchant, Placide Cappeau, was asked by his local priest to write a Christmas poem. Cappeau showed this poem, “Minuit, chrétiens,” to the famed French composer ...