The Mother Angelica Tour

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Apparently there is a tour of Canton, Ohio focusing on Mother Angelica.

http://motherangelicatour.com/

I’m sure this is fun for the older people who like to take bus tours, but the idea of taking a bus tour of Canton makes me chuckle a bit. It’s not exactly Assisi, though I’m sure it would love to be.
 
What did you think of it? I have been or am going to several of the places on the tour already on my own.

I have a place to stay about an hour away so I don’t need to get a hotel or anything.
 
It was okay :man_shrugging:t2: Honestly, you’re better off driving yourself. The Rhoda Wise House was interesting.
 
You could make a sorry trip around the RustBelt! Canton, Akron, Cleveland, and Youngstown! We might not have steel but we got beer 🍻😀
 
Yes, I’ve driven down to the House myself last year. It was a more quiet and prayerful experience without a large group of people. There were about 5 local people saying the rosary in the living room and I had the grotto all to myself during a big rainstorm, so I just stayed in there reading the Bible till it was over.
I will probably go again soon.

I’m from Cleveland so I go there all the time 🙂 it’s actually looking much, much better than it did when I lived there. I kind of preferred it when it was in worse shape as there were fewer crowds downtown.

Akron lost big points with me when it turned the Oat Hotel with the silos into a college dorm with unworkable internet.
 
Maximilian75 said:
Don’t forget Steubenville!
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I realize Steubenville has become a hotbed of Catholic activity but I still associate it with the annual Dean Martin festival.
I am old enough to remember Dean Martin’s TV variety show. I was a kindergartener and liked to watch the beginning because he would always enter by sliding down a fire pole singing “Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime”. Then my parents would usually turn it off. One time I asked them why they didn’t like Dean Martin and my mother said he was a drunk.
 
I’ve seen the tour advertised on Facebook, but I just make the drive myself. It’s only about an hour for me, and I’d much rather do things on my own rather than in a group.
 
I always wanted to stay in that hotel , so about 10 years ago, I finally did. The silos were cool but the room furniture and fixtures were old and looked worse than a Motel 6, the drains didn’t drain, the Internet had a netnanny that blocked just about every website except for the college homepage, and most of the building was being used for a dorm. I read that the college was forced by some city law to keep part of the place operating as a hotel and they were obviously just doing as little as possible in order to meet the requirements.

They did have Quaker Oats in the restaurant for breakfast.

A couple of my friends who went to Akron U were recently all bummed out because some historic church the college inherited that they had used for years for their dance studies program, that my friends had been in, had been allowed to decay to the point where homeless people were living in it and one of them burned it down trying to keep warm with a bonfire.
 
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I liked Franciscan University. However, it was too expensive and didn’t have any degree that interested me.
 
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As do I, very much so…

But yeah… their endowment is tiny, and there is almost no scholarship money to be had there.
 
There is a special Mass at St. Peter’s in July for Rhoda, and also St. Anthony’s relic tour is coming through that area in a couple weeks.
 
Yes, it’s on July 7th (would have been my parents 56th wedding anniversary).

We have the St. Anthony relic coming to the Basilica and Shrine of Our Lady of Lebanon in North Jackson, and I plan on going there.
 
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