In 1981, Mother Angelica, a cloistered Franciscan nun, launched what became the largest religious media network in the world
Eternal Word Television Network.
Here is her story..
That healing set her Life on a course that would ultimately change the world........
Rita\'s Years of trial were compounded by a debilitating stomach ailment until she was healed by Jesus through a woman named Rhoda Wise.
Life was a struggle for Rita and her mother.
Divorce soon followed.
Her father, John abandoned the family before Rita was five Years old.
Young Rita had a difficult childhood.
Rizzo, the future Mother Angelica, grew up in a working class neighborhood during the Roaring Twenties a block away from her parish church.
Born Rita A.
It all began in 1923 in a small home in the southeast end of Canton, Ohio.
EWTN now reaches 264 million homes in 145 countries and over 700 million homes with AM, FM, shortwave radio and internet.
She began the network with $200 in a monastery garage in Birmingham, Alabama.
In 1981, Mother Angelica, a cloistered Franciscan nun, launched what became the largest religious media network in the world
Eternal Word Television Network
