- 1) Who wrote the famous Christmas story “A Christmas Carol”?
Charles Dickens - 2) In which country did Christmas carols originate?
Austria - 3) Who wrote the original German version of the famous hymn “Silent Night, Holy Night”?
The Austrian priest Joseph Mohr - 4) Which country behan the tradition of setting up the Christmas tree?
Germany

Consistory to reflect on Church’s mission to communicate God’s love
In a letter to the Cardinals ahead of a late-June Consistory, Pope Leo XIV calls for a deeper reflection on the themes of “Evangelii gaudium,”


