Rizzo attended a parochial school, but disliked the nuns there, whom she recalled as being 'the meanest people on earth' and treating her with harsh discipline due to her parents' divorce. Matters were complicated when her grandfather, Anthony Gianfrancesco, suffered a stroke in their absence, which paralyzed him on one side and required him to use a cane. Even then, we pinched pennies just to keep food on the table.' The pair lived with her maternal grandparents, moving out for a time between 19, but were forced to return because of financial pressures. Looking back at her childhood, Angelica described herself and her mother as being 'like a pair of refugees.' 'We were poor, hungry, and barely surviving on odd jobs until Mother joined the dry cleaning business as an apprentice to a Jewish tailor in our area. This was in part because being a divorcée carried a social stigma at the time and the opportunities for a woman to secure income were limited especially in the height of the Great Depression. Her mother only received 'intermittent child-support payments from the father.' While maintaining full custody, her mother struggled with chronic depression and poverty. On March 10, 1931, her mother was granted custody of the young Rizzo, and her father was ordered to pay five dollars a week in child support. Her father, a tailor by trade, abandoned the family when Rizzo was only five, and her parents divorced two years later. She was the only child of John and Mae Helen Rizzo ( née Gianfrancesco). Of Italian-American background, from Capriati a Volturno, Campania. Mother Angelica was born Rita Antoinette Rizzo on April 20, 1923, in Canton, Ohio, in a community of African-American and Italian immigrant mill workers. She continued to live in the cloistered monastery in Hanceville, Alabama, until her death in 2016. Angelica hosted shows on EWTN until she had a stroke in 2001. Over the next twenty years, she developed a media network that included radio, TV, and internet channels as well as print media. In 1981, Angelica started broadcasting religious programs from a converted garage in Birmingham, Alabama. EWTN became a voice for Catholics worldwide. She was the founder of the international broadcast cable television network Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) and the radio network WEWN. She was best known for the television show Mother Angelica Live. Mother Mary Angelica of the Annunciation PCPA (born Rita Antoinette Rizzo Ap– March 27, 2016), also known as Mother Angelica, was an American Roman Catholic nun of the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration.

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