Conservative nun Mother Angelica dies at 92

HANCEVILLE, Ala. — Mother Mary Angelica of the Annunciation, the conservative nun who started the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Hanceville, died March 27. She was 92.

Although she was only able to communicate with a squeeze of her hand for many years after a debilitating stroke, she retained devoted admirers nationwide who followed the Catholic cable channel, Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN), that she started in 1981.

Mother Angelica also founded a monastery in Irondale in 1962, starting the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament in the 1990s.

(RNS)