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Mother Angelica

American Catholic nun and broadcaster (1923–2016)

Mother Mary Angelica of the AnnunciationPCPA^[3] (born Rita Antoinette Rizzo; April 20, 1923 – March 27, 2016), commonly known as Mother Angelica, was an American Roman Catholic nun of the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration. She was best known for the television show Mother Angelica Live. She was the founder of the international broadcast cable television network Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN), which is purported to be "the world's largest religious media network". She also founded the radio network WEWN. EWTN became a voice for Catholics worldwide.

In 1981, Angelica started broadcasting religious programs from a converted garage in Birmingham, Alabama. Over the next twenty years, she developed a media network that included radio, TV, and internet channels as well as print media. Angelica hosted shows on EWTN until she had a stroke in 2001. She continued to live in the cloistered monastery in Hanceville, Alabama, until her death in 2016.^[4]

Early life

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Mother Angelica was born Rita Antoinette Rizzo on April 20, 1923, in Canton, Ohio, a small town with a large immigrant population known for its steel production. Though the majority of the town was considered pleas

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Mother Angelica's last days: priest describes her suffering, death on Easter

During the first memorial sermon for Mother Angelica on Tuesday, in a chapel at the headquarters of EWTN Global Catholic Network in Irondale, EWTN Chaplain Joseph Wolfe described the last three days of Mother Angelica's life and her death on Easter Sunday.

Wolfe noted that Mother Angelica had instructed her nuns to do everything to keep her alive, no matter how much she suffered, because every day she suffered, she suffered for God.

"Most of us would not think that way," Wolfe said. "We would think, 'Get me out of here...' What's taken out of that picture is the love of God."

Mother Angelica wanted each day to be "one more act of suffering to God," Wolfe said.

"This is the greatest power on earth, the love of God that comes to us in Christ Jesus our Lord," Wolfe said. "This was something that Mother understood. She wanted to love Him in return. That was her whole life."

Mother Angelica suffered pain most of her life after an accident as young girl when she fell using an industrial waxing machine left her in leg braces. She had a stroke in 2001 that prompted her to wear an eye patch over her left eye as she hosted her TV t