EWTN chaplain recounts Mother Angelica’s last days
Posted Mar 29, 2016 05:20:35 PM.
Last Updated Mar 29, 2016 07:26:23 PM.
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IRONDALE, Ala. – The chaplain of the Eternal World Television Network remembered its founder, Mother Mary Angelica, during a memorial sermon at the station’s headquarters and recalled the days leading up to her death on Easter Sunday.
Al.com reports (http://bit.ly/1UAoCh8) Chaplain Joseph Wolfe said Tuesday that 92-year-old Mother Angelica told nuns to do whatever they could to keep her alive because she considered her suffering an act of devotion to God.
Mother Angelica launched a television ministry out of the garage of a monastery in rural Alabama that grew into a global religious media empire. She had been in declining health since a cerebral hemorrhage on Christmas Eve in 2001.
Wolfe says Mother Angelica began crying out on Friday and nuns and priests were at her side praying when she died Sunday.
