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"St. Olga of Kwethluk, Matushka of All Alaska," as she is officially known, was canonized June 19 as the first female ...

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Alaska Native woman, ‘everybody’s helper,’ is Orthodox church’s first female North American saint By: Peter Smith, The Associated Press Posted: 6:02 AM CDT Thursday, Jun. 26, 2025 Last ...

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. As the wife ...

St. Olga is the third with Alaska Native heritage recognized by the Orthodox Church in America, following the 19th century St. Peter the Aleut and St. Yakov Netsvetov of Alaska, who was of Aleut and ...

Worshippers, including an Orthodox priest wearing a black cassock, walk on the dusty streets of Kwethluk, Alaska, on June 19, 2025, heading to St. Nicholas Orthodox Church for the canonization ...

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.