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Mother Mary Angelica of the Annunciation PCPA [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.
The Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) is an American basic cable television network which presents around-the-clock Catholic programming. It is the largest Catholic television network in America, [1] and is purported to be "the world's largest religious media network", [2] (and according to the network itself) reaching 425 million people in 160 countries, [2] with 11 networks.
Michael Warsaw, the chairman and chief executive officer of EWTN stated "In many of the most difficult days in the history of EWTN, Father Benedict was a strong and vocal supporter of Mother Angelica." [3] In 1985, Groeschel co-founded, with Christopher Bell, the Good Counsel Homes for homeless pregnant women and children. [11]
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They were founded in 1987 by Mother Angelica, who also founded the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) and the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Hanceville, Alabama. The primary residence of the Friars is in Irondale, Alabama , and is next door to EWTN.
Reactions to Mother Angelica's death: The nun, born Rita Rizzo in Canton, Ohio, founded the network, among the world's largest religious broadcasters, from a studio set up in an Alabama monastery ...
The best known example of a rosary-based prayer is the Dominican Rosary which is ubiquitously called the rosary. In traditional form it involves contemplation on fifteen rosary mysteries (as three sets of five mysteries each), while Our Father , Hail Mary and Glory be to the Father prayers are recited. [ 15 ]
Rhoda Wise was born Rhoda Greer on February 22, 1888, in Cadiz, Ohio, to bricklayer Eli Greer and his wife Anna, the sixth of their eight children.When she was two years old, the Greer family moved to Wheeling, West Virginia, where she was raised as a member of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), also known as the First Christian Church.