Category: Biography

Copyright/published Year: 2005 by Doubleday

ISBN: 0385510926

Binding: Cloth

In 1981, the year after Ted Turner founded CNN, a simple nun ì using her entrepreneurial instincts and $200 for seed money, ì launched what would become the world's largest religious media ì empire in the garage of a Birmingham, Alabama monastery. Today, ì EWTN offers twenty-four hours of English and Spanish television ì programming reaching 105 million viewers around the globe. How ì did a crippled nun achieve so much and reach so many?

Born Rita Rizzo in Canton, Ohio, in 1923, Mother Angelica was ì abandoned by her father and raised in poverty by a mother who ì suffered suicidal depressions. Awakened to the power of prayer, ì she vowed to dedicate her life to God and become a cloistered ì nun. She expected to spend her life hidden from the world. But ì Rita's faith compelled her to unlikely endeavors, accomplishing ì what the highest echelon of the Catholic Church could not.

Raymond Arroyo's engrossing biography traces Mother Angelica's ì tortured rise to success and exposes for the first time the ì fierce opposition she faced, inside and outside of her church. It ì is an inspiring story of survival and proof that one woman's ì faith can move more than mountains.

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