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Bethlehem Echoes: origin of famous Christmas carols
The article traces the inspiration behind "O Little Town of Bethlehem" to a 1865 Bethlehem visit by Rev. Phillips Brooks, then surveys how American and European carols emerged from diverse origins. It notes Mayflower singing, Jesuit Brébeuf hymns among Hurons, and melodies borrowed or inspired by figures like Handel, Watts, and Wesley.
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Bethlehem
Christ
Hugh A. Mulligan
Holy Land
Philips Brooks
Philadelphia
Church of the Holy Trinity
Wores
Lewis Redne
Austrian Alps
Phillips Brooks
Vna
America
New World
Provincetown
Jesus
John de Brebeuf
Indiana
Paris
Bartholomew Vimont
Europe
Isaac Watts
Handel
Lowell Mason
Medfield
Miss
Charles Wesley
Colony of
Georgia
Martin Luther
Eastern
Pennsylvania
Westminster Cathedral
Quebec
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Satret Hyman
Getysboro
Army of the Potomac