{"product_id":"book-h1lk","title":"Mother Angelica","description":"\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER\u003cbr\u003eThe extraordinary saga of Mother Angelica--who passed away on Easter, 2016--founder of the multimillion-dollar Eternal  Word Television Network and “the most influential Catholic woman in America” according  to \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In 1981, the year after Ted Turner founded CNN, a simple nun, using  merely her entrepreneurial instincts and $200, launched what would become the world’ s largest religious media empire in the garage of a Birmingham, Alabama, monastery.  Under her guidance, the Eternal Word Television Network grew at a staggering pace,  both in viewership and in influence, to where it now reaches over a hundred million  viewers in hundreds of countries around the globe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Born Rita Rizzo in Canton, Ohio,  in 1923, Mother Angelica was abandoned by her father and raised in poverty by a mother  who suffered from suicidal depressions. As a young woman, Rita developed severe abdominal  pain that doctors dismissed as a “nervous condition,” but when she sought the prayers  of a local mystic, her symptoms disappeared. Awakened to the power of prayer, she  vowed to dedicate her life to God and became a cloistered nun, expecting to spend  her life hidden from the world. But Rita’s faith soon compelled her to unlikely endeavors,  from establishing a monastery in Alabama to starting the world’s first Catholic cable  network. Relying solely on “God’s providence,” Mother Angelica built an empire without  concern for budgets or fund-raising campaigns, achieving what even the highest levels  of the Catholic Church had been unable to do. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Raymond Arroyo combines his journalist’ s objectivity and eye for detail with more than five years of exclusive interviews  with Mother Angelica. He traces Mother Angelica’s tortured rise to success and exposes  for the first time the fierce opposition she faced, both inside and outside of her  church. It is an inspiring story of survival and proof that one woman’s faith can  move more than mountains.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49323506762032,"sku":"BDh1lk","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/362892-h1lk-Square.jpg?v=1733513411","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-h1lk","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}