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Alaska Native woman, 'everybody's helper,' is Orthodox church's first female North American saint
KWETHLUK, Alaska — It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael ...
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The Orthodox Church in America has its first female saint from North America. ... golden-robed acolytes, women in headscarves and other devotees in a mingling of dust and incense.
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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
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 ...
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Alaska Native woman, ‘everybody’s helper,’ is Orthodox church’s first female North American saint
Choral chants and incense began rising after they disembarked, and continued for hours in the uncharacteristically hot sun of Alaska’s long solstice eve. About 150 devotees squeezed into the sanctuary ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Alaska Native woman, ‘everybody’s helper,’ is Orthodox church’s first female North American saint
When the bishops of the Orthodox Church in America authorized St. Olga’s canonization in 2023, there was talk of moving her body to Anchorage as a more accessible location.