On August 15, 1981, 44 years ago and coinciding with the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, Mother Angelica founded Alabama, the United States, the Eternal Global Catholic channel Word Television Network (EWTN).
Everything then the Angelica mother and the religious of the community of the poor people of perpetual worship, for the television channel, fit in a garage where her community was, in Irondale.
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It was also on August 15, but in 1944, when Rita Rizzo entered the poor people in the city of Cleveland, taking the name of Sister María Angélica de la Annunciation, with only 21 years.
Ewtn’s origins date back to the 1960s and 1970s. Mother Angelica became known for being a charismatic speaker, and in 1969 he began recording audios of spiritual conversations for mass distribution.
Her first radio program was in 1971. Seven years later the religious recorded her first half -hour television programs under the name “Our Hermitage.”
However, one day of 1978, Mother Angelica learned that the secular station where she recorded planned to spread a program that she considered blasphemous.
“I confronted the station administrator and protested.” “He ignored my complaint, so I told him that I would go elsewhere to make my recordings. He said: ‘You leave this season and you are out of television.'” “I will build my own (station)!” Replied Mother Angelica.
Fruit of the confidence of the Angelica mother and her thrust, EWTN transmits a 24 -hour programming to more than 435 million homes in more than 160 countries and territories, and has about 400 workers.
In addition, EWTN currently manages a catalog of religious articles and publishes the National Catholic Register and ACI Press, among other publishing companies.
Ewtn thanks all those who are part of “our spiritual family, for binding to us in prayer and masses of thanks to the Heavenly Father for another year of operations, for a year more of thanks and blessings received, for all the generosity that he himself puts in the hearts of our benefactors and television, and for the great affection and support of all our missionary friends, taking Ewtn everywhere.”
Mother Angelica died on March 27, 2016, Domingo de Resurrection, after 15 years of struggle with the sequels of a stroke. I was 92 years old.
In July 2016, Pope Francis said Mother Angelica was “a holy woman.”
Every year the Ewtn friars bless the facilities of the Catholic channel with the Blessed Sacrament.
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The Catholic Agency for Information – ACI PRESS, is part of the news agencies of the ACI group, one of the greatest generators of Catholic news content in five languages and belonging since June 2014 to the family of Ewtn Global Catholic Network, the largest television Catholic chain in the world, founded in 1981 by the Angélica mother in Irondale, Alabama (United States), and that reaches more than 85 million homes in 110 countries and 16 territories.