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Rent Mother Angelica: The Remarkable Story of a Nun, Her Nerve, and a Network of Miracles
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Narrator: Raymond Arroyo
Format: Unabridged-CD
Publisher: Saint Anthony Messenger Press and Franciscan
Published: Sep 2005
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Religious
Retail Price: $36.99
Discs: 10
Synopsis
Born Rita Rizzo in Canton, Ohio in 1923, Mother Angelica was abandoned by her father and raised in poverty by a mother who suffered suicidal depressions. As a young woman, after Rita developed severe abdominal pain she sought the prayers of a local mystic and her symptoms disappeared. Awakened to the power of prayer, she vowed to dedicate her life to God and became a cloistered nun. She expected to spend her life hidden from the world, but Rita's faith compelled her to unlikely endeavors, from establishing