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Two women embrace during the canonization ceremony of St. Olga in Kwethluk, Alaska, on June 19, 2025, which made her the first female Orthodox saint in North America. Mark Thiessen/AP ...
Now, after an elaborate ceremony in her village of about 800 people in southwestern Alaska, she is the first female Orthodox saint from North America, officially known as “St. Olga of Kwethluk ...
This 1930s photo provided by her family shows Olga Michael, an Alaskan Yup’ik woman who became St. Olga of Kwethluk, Matushka of All Alaska, the first female North American saint in the Orthodox ...
Alaska Native woman, 'everybody's helper,' is Orthodox church's first female North American saint. By PETER SMITH. June 26, 2025 at 7:01 am EDT. Expand.
KWETHLUK, Alaska (AP) — It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael quietly lived her entire life as a midwife and a mother of 13.
Alaska Native woman, 'everybody's helper,' is Orthodox church's first female North American saint. By PETER SMITH. June 26, 2025 at 7:01 am EDT. Expand.
Alaska Native woman, ‘everybody’s helper,’ is Orthodox church’s first female North American saint by: PETER SMITH, Associated Press. Posted: Jun 26, 2025 / 06:01 AM CDT.