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1 day ago · Maria is a free-spirited young woman who lives in the Nonnberg Abbey and is training to be a nun. However, she constantly gets in trouble as she is off singing in the fields. After the nuns are exhausted by her carefree actions, she is sent away to work by Mother Abbess as a governess for Captain von Trapp’s seven children.
5 days ago · The company then flew to Salzburg, where filming resumed on April 23 at Mondsee Abbey for the wedding scenes. From April 25 through May 22, scenes were filmed at the Felsenreitschule, Nonnberg Abbey, Mirabell Palace Gardens, Residence Fountain, and various street locations throughout the Altstadt (Old Town) area of the city.
1 day ago · It’s like, oh my gosh, anyway. Okay, this movie shows Captain Von Trapp and Maria falling in love immediately, but in real life Maria wanted to return to the Nonnberg Abbey and become a nun, as that was always what she desired. She was very upset that she wasn’t able to return.
1 day ago · The monastery will now be known as the Monastery of St. Anne as the nuns have a special devotion to the mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The motherhouse of the nuns is the Abbey of Our Lady of Ephesus in Gower, Missouri. The Monastery of St. Joseph in Ava Missouri is their first foundation, and the Monastery of St. Anne is their second.
4 days ago · By Courtney Mares. CNA Staff, Mar 19, 2023 / 04:00 am (CNA). St. Joseph does not have any words recorded in sacred Scripture, but the published meditations of an 18th-century Italian nun offer the chance to imagine the details of the Holy Family’s daily life as it might have been from the perspective of the foster father of Jesus.
4 days ago · In 1685, nuns from the Nonnberg Abbey near Salzburg had settled on the Säbener Klosterberg, and six years later they brought in Romanus Weichlein, a monastery musician who had already made a name for himself in his home convent in Lambach (not only because he killed a monastery cook, allegedly in self-defence).
4 days ago · She helped choose the site and made sure the community was endowed with the properties which would generate income to support the abbey at what came to be known as Nonnberg (mountain of nuns). Following Duke Theodo’s repose St. Regintrudis entered Nonnberg where she received monastic tonsure and eventually served as the community’s fourth ...
