Despite smoky conditions across the Fairbanks area, parades at North Pole and Ester brought hundreds of community members ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

National Alaska Native woman, 'everybody's helper,' is Orthodox church's first female North American saint By PETER SMITH June 26, 2025 at 7:01 am EDT ...

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