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 , 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 She continued to live in the cloistered monastery in Hanceville , Alabama, until her death in Mother Angelica was born Rita Antoinette Rizzo on April 20, , in Canton, Ohio , [ 5 ] a little steel-producing town which attracted thousands of immigrants.
Rita Rizzo, however, was born in southeast Canton, known as the red-light district or "the slums". Rita Rizzo was born at Liberty, the sprawling home of Mary and Anthony Gianfresco, her maternal grandparents. Mae was a striking woman with good looks and a sense for fashion. However she was convinced that she had been cheated by life - she had been removed from school following an incident in fifth grade and felt she did not know enough, leaving deep scars on Mae.
Mae seized the opportunity and married John at age 22 against the advice of her parents who disliked John. Mae carried her to the side altar of Our Lady of Sorrows and told her 'I give you my daughter'. A house he rented was full of roaches including over herself.
Mae scolded John and went to her parents for the night, which became a regular pattern. Eventually Catherine left. Anthony Gianfresco had emigrated from Naples , Italy to Colorado where he worked in a gold mine before he moved to Ohio and married Mary Votolato.
