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Los Angeles Times5d
Alaska Native woman, ‘everybody’s helper,’ is Orthodox church’s first female North American saint - Los Angeles Times
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 ...
Alaska Dispatch News9d
In a historic canonization, the ‘mother of the Kuskokwim’ becomes an Orthodox saint
Her island, too, had been home to a saint: Saint Jacob Netsvetov, one of Alaska’s five other Orthodox saints. Marii Swetzof, of Atka, gets a ride on the Kuskokwim River toward Kwethluk on June 19.
Newsday5d
Who was Olga, the Alaska Native drawing devotion as Orthodoxy's new saint? - Newsday
KWETHLUK, Alaska — “St. Olga of Kwethluk, Matushka of All Alaska,” as she is officially known, was canonized on June 19 as the first female Orthodox saint from North America. Orthodoxy ...
SFGate6d
Alaska Native woman, 'everybody's helper,' is Orthodox church's first female North American saint - SFGATE
The Orthodox Church in America has its first female saint from North America. Hundreds of pilgrims joined several bishops in an elaborate ceremony to canonize St. Olga Michael in her remote home ...
Newsday5d
Alaska Native woman, 'everybody's helper,' is Orthodox church's first female North American saint - Newsday
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 ...
Hartford Courant5d
Alaska Native woman, ‘everybody’s helper,’ is Orthodox church’s first female North American saint
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 ...
Oregonian5d
Alaska Native woman, ‘everybody’s helper,’ is Orthodox church’s first female North American saint
Worshippers fill St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in Kwethluk, Alaska, on June 19, 2025, for the canonization ceremony of Matushka Olga Michael, who became the first female Orthodox saint in North ...