It's a busy, bustling, exciting time of year at Our Lady of the Angels Monastery in Hanceville, the home of pioneering TV nun Mother Angelica.

In this 1999 photo, Mother Angelica stands in the piazza at the Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament, a pilgrimage center at Our Lady of the Angels Monastery Farm in Hanceville, Ala. She died at ...

Seven round satellite dishes on the lawn at EWTN's studios in Irondale, Ala., face the heavens — conduits between a vibrant Catholic ministry and the world. An hour's drive north, in Hanceville ...

She suffered a stroke in 2001. She continues to live at Our Lady of the Angels Monastery in Hanceville, Ala. It was reported last November that Mother Angelica was placed on a feeding tube.

HANCEVILLE, Alabama — Mother Mary Angelica, a folksy Roman Catholic nun who used a monastery garage to begin a television ministry that grew into a global religious media empire, had died.

Mother Angelica died peacefully at 5 p.m., surrounded by the Poor Clare Nuns of Perpetual Adoration of Our Lady of the Angels Monastery in Hanceville, Alabama.

HANCEVILLE, Ala. – Mother Angelica, founder of the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN), remains in “delicate” condition, according to an update from The Sisters at Our Lady of… ...

Sister Mary Joseph of the Eternal Father, one of the founding nuns of Our Lady of the Angels Monastery in Irondale, Ala., died on July 19, only four days after celebrating her 87th birthday.