Her father, a tailor by trade, abandoned the family when Rizzo was only five, and her parents divorced two years later. She was the only child of John and Mae Helen Rizzo ( née Gianfrancesco).

Of Italian-American background, from Capriati a Volturno, Campania. Mother Angelica was born Rita Antoinette Rizzo on April 20, 1923, in Canton, Ohio, in a community of African-American and Italian immigrant mill workers. She continued to live in the cloistered monastery in Hanceville, Alabama, until her death in 2016. Angelica hosted shows on EWTN until she had a stroke in 2001. Over the next twenty years, she developed a media network that included radio, TV, and internet channels as well as print media. In 1981, Angelica started broadcasting religious programs from a converted garage in Birmingham, Alabama. EWTN became a voice for Catholics worldwide. She was the founder of the international broadcast cable television network Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) and the radio network WEWN. She was best known for the television show Mother Angelica Live. Mother Mary Angelica of the Annunciation PCPA (born Rita Antoinette Rizzo Ap– March 27, 2016), also known as Mother Angelica, was an American Roman Catholic nun of the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration. This entry was posted in Holidays, anniversaries & other special dates, Prayer & Scripture and tagged healing, Heaven, saying 'goodbye' by Light Mama. I thank You for the life that began for so short a time to enjoy so long an Eternity. I breathed a soul into a seed, made it grow and called it forth

He was created for My joy and his parents’ merits. I create for My Kingdom and each creature fills a place in that Kingdom that could not be filled by another. He laughs with a special joy that only the innocent possess. He knows secrets of heaven unknown to men on earth. He was created and lived a short time so the image of his parents imprinted on his face may stand before Me as their personal intercessor. Instead of the beauty that passes he sees everlasting Beauty-he sees My face. Instead of the wind he hears the sound of angels singing before My throne. “Why, My child-do you ask ‘why’? Well, I will tell you why. Why, my Lord-dare I ask why? It will not hear the whisper of the wind or see the beauty of its parents’ face-it will not see the beauty of Your creation or the flame of a sunrise.

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