There are several female Catholic saints from North America ... the now-independent offspring of the Russian Orthodox Church. St. Olga is the third with Alaska Native heritage, emblematic of how the ...

Native American News; Alaska Native woman, ‘everybody’s helper,’ is Orthodox church’s first female North American saint. Published: ; Jun. 26, 2025, 2:58 p.m.

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

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 of an ...

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Last month, the Russian Orthodox Church canonized a new saint: Olga Michael, who lived in the small ton of Kwethluk, Alaska, until her death in 1979. St. Olga is the first Yup’ik to be canonized in ...

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 ...

St. Olga is the third with Alaska Native heritage, emblematic of how the faith has grafted in with some Indigenous cultures. Most of the state's Orthodox priests, serving about 80 parishes, are ...