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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 ...
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Alaska Native woman, ‘everybody’s helper,’ is Orthodox church’s first female North American saint
(AP Photo/Mark Thiessen) AP 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 ...
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Alaska Native woman, 'everybody's helper,' is Orthodox church's first female North American saint - SFGATE
The Yup’ik woman became known in church communities across Alaska for quiet generosity, piety and compassion — particularly as a consoler of women who had suffered from abuse, from miscarriage ...
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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 St. Olga, 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 - National Catholic Reporter
Worshippers fill St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in Kwethluk, Alaska, on June 19, 2025, for the canonization ceremony of St. Olga, the first female Orthodox saint in North America. (AP/Mark Thiessen) ...
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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 - WFMZ
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 - The Detroit News
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 - news8000.com
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 ...
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Alaska Native woman, ‘everybody’s helper,’ is Orthodox church’s first female North American saint - Hartford Courant
By PETER SMITH 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 ...