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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 26. Chapters: Scholastica, Maria von Trapp, Annella Zervas, Dolores Hart, Heloise d'Argenteuil, Hrotsvitha, Mary of Woodstock, Opportuna of Montreuil, Elizabeth of Schonau, Wiborada, Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger, Maria Adeodata Pisani, Theresa of Portugal, Queen of Leon, Silja Walter, Lady Barbara FitzRoy, Frances of Rome, Gertrude of Nivelles, Chiara Margarita Cozzolani, Joan Chittister, Adelaide, Abbess of Vilich, Cecile Bruyere, Diemoth, Caterina Assandra, Irmgard of Chiemsee, Christine Vladimiroff, Leofrun, Jutta von Sponheim, Benedictine Sisters of Elk County, Felicitas Corrigan, Itta, Laurentia McLachlan, Maria Kisito, Gertrude More, Mary Louise St. John, AEthelburh of Wilton, Franca Visalta, Mildburh, Hildelith Cumming, Edburga of Minster-in-Thanet, Werburgh Welch, Ancilla Dent, Chelidonia, Mildgyth, Rosa Giacinta Badalla, Saethryth, Mechtildis of Edelstetten, Wivina, Adelina, Rachilidis, Saint Ava. Excerpt: Eleonore von Trapp (b. 1931)Johannes von Trapp (b. 1939) -}} Maria Augusta von Trapp (26 January 1905 - 28 March 1987), also known as Baroness Maria von Trapp, was the stepmother and matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers. Her story served as the inspiration for a 1956 German film that in turn inspired the Broadway musical The Sound of Music. She was born on January 26, 1905, aboard a train heading from her parents' village in Tyrol to a hospital in Vienna, Austria. She was an orphan by her seventh birthday and graduated from the State Teachers College for Progressive Education in Vienna at age 18, in 1923. She entered Nonnberg Abbey, a Benedictine monastery in Salzburg, intending to become a nun. While still a school teacher there, she was asked to teach one of the seven children of widowed naval commander Georg Ludwig von Trapp and his first wife, Agathe Whitehead von Trapp, who had died from scarlet fever. .
