EWTN Founding Nun 'Mother Angelica' Dies at 92

Mother Angelica, the founder of Eternal World Television Network, a global Catholic network, has died at age 92.

She suffered a series of strokes for the past 15 years and had declining health.
 
The current EWTN Chairman and CEO Michael P. Warsaw said she died at the monastery where she lived, north of Birmingham, Alabama.
 
Mother Angelica was born with the name Rita Rizzo in Ohio in 1923. She became a nun at age 21 at the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration. Then she joined other different nuns at a new monastery in Alabama in 1962.

In 1981, she began broadcasting a religious TV show from a monastery garage in Alabama that grew into a worldwide television, radio and publishing operation: EWTN.