On August 15, 1981, 45 years ago and coinciding with the feast of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, Mother Angelica founded the global Catholic channel Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) in Alabama, United States.

Everything that Mother Angelica and the nuns of the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration community had for the television channel at the time fit in a garage in the place where their community was, in Irondale.

It was also on August 15, but in 1944, when Rita Rizzo entered the Poor Clares in the city of Cleveland, taking the name of Sister Maria Angelica of the Annunciation, at only 21 years old.

EWTN's origins date back to the 1960s and 1970s. Mother Angelica became known for being a charismatic speaker, and in 1969 she began recording audios of spiritual conversations for mass distribution.

His first radio show was in 1971. Seven years later, the nun recorded her first half-hour television programs under the name "Nuestra Ermita".

However, one day in 1978, Mother Angelica learned that the secular station where she was recording was planning to broadcast a program that she considered blasphemous.

"I confronted the station manager and protested." "He ignored my complaint, so I told him I'd go somewhere else to make my recordings. He told me: 'You leave this station and you are off television.'" "I will build my own (station)!" replied Mother Angelica.

As a result of Mother Angelica's trust and drive, EWTN broadcasts 24-hour programming a day to more than 435 million households in more than 160 countries and territories, and has around 400 workers.

In addition, EWTN currently manages a catalog of religious articles and publishes the National Catholic Register and ACI Prensa, among other publishing companies.

EWTN thanks all those who are part of our spiritual family, for joining us in prayer and Masses of thanksgiving to Heavenly Father for one more year of operations, for one more year of graces and blessings received, for all the generosity that He Himself puts in the hearts of our benefactors and viewers, and for the great love and support of all our missionary friends, taking EWTN everywhere.

Mother Angelica passed away on March 27, 2016, Easter Sunday, after 15 years of struggling with the aftermath of a stroke. He was 92 years old.

In July 2016, Pope Francis said that Mother Angelica was "a holy woman."

Every year EWTN friars bless the facilities of the Catholic canal with the Blessed Sacrament.