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The Spirituality of Maria von Trapp

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In December, I wrote about Maria von Trapp and, in particular, her book The Story of the Trapp Family Singers (1949), on which the famous musical The Sound of Music is based. Maria wrote several other books, which are also well worth reading. The family’s genuine and lived faith is beautifully shown through all of Maria’s writings, and it is certainly the foundation of the biographical book about which I previously wrote.

 
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She was raised by an abusive uncle who instilled his atheism in her. She converted after accidentally
going to Mass, which she thought was just a Bach concert, and in there she was impressed by the sermon.
She looked much tougher than what Hollywood presented her in The Sound of Music, after all, she was
Austrian.
 
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