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Alaska Native woman, ‘everybody’s helper,’ is Orthodox church’s first female North American saint
The Orthodox Church in America has its first female saint from North America. Hundreds of pilgrims joined several bishops in ...
Who was Olga, the Alaska Native drawing devotion as Orthodoxy’s new saint?
The first female Orthodox saint in North America was an Indigenous woman who spent her entire life with her Yup'ik family and ...
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In a historic canonization, the ‘mother of the Kuskokwim’ becomes an Orthodox saint
The humble Yup’ik mother and midwife known as Matushka Olga is now officially a saint in the Orthodox church, after a ...
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Canonized on the Kuskokwim: Orthodox faithful descend on Kwethluk for the glorification of St. Olga
The two-day glorification ceremony for Olga "Arrsamquq" Michael, known as Matushka Olga, brought together those drawn to her ...
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Alaska Native woman, 'everybody's helper,' is Orthodox church's first female North American saint - Newsday
Deacon Michael Lucius of Toronto visits the gravesite of Matushka Olga Michael in Kwethluk, Alaska, on June 18, 2025, a day before she became the first female Orthodox saint in North America.
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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 ...
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Alaska Native woman, ‘everybody’s helper,’ is Orthodox church’s first female North American saint - Los Angeles Times
Olga Michael's renown spread to a widening circle of devotees after her death from cancer in 1979 at age 63. ... About 150 devotees squeezed into the sanctuary of Saint Nicholas Orthodox Church, ...
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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 ...