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Hit the refresh button on your browser if the buttons here do not show up.  In 1944, a young woman named Rita Rizzo entered the Cleveland Monastery.This was to have great consequences for our Order. She was given the name Sr. Mary Angelica and in 1946 was chosen to be one of the founding members of our Monastery in Canton, Ohio. Our Cleveland Monastery sent out a foundation to Washington, DC in 1954 and two years later, our own Monastery was founded in Portsmouth, Ohio, in 1956. In 1962 Mother Angelica headed South to fulfil a promise she had made to the Lord after suffering many injuries from an accident-"If you let me walk again, I will build You a Monastery in the South. " The Lord agreed to those terms and she went on to found Our Lady of the Angels Monastery, an International Catholic Television Network (EWTN), a radio station, and an order of Franciscan Friars. After some years the Monastery was too small to hold all the vocations the Lord was sending, so the Shrine of the Blessed Sacrament was built in 1999 in Hanceville, Alabama. Vocations have continued to abound and the Monastery has sent out foundations to Phoenix, Arizona and San Antonio, Texas. Two Sisters from Hanceville are also part of the international community which has formed in Troyes, France, to re-open our cradle Monastery which had been closed for some time.  |
