Worshippers fill St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in Kwethluk, Alaska, on June 19, 2025, for the canonization ceremony of St. Olga, ... Historic CT train station becomes a tavern.

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.

Worshippers fill St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in Kwethluk, Alaska, on June 19, 2025, for the canonization ceremony of Matushka Olga Michael, ... Male or female, young or old, ...

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.

This 1930s photo provided by her family shows Olga Michael, an Alaskan Yup’ik woman who became St. Olga of Kwethluk, Matushka of All Alaska, the first female North American saint in the Orthodox ...

Male or female, young or old, rich or poor, everyone is called to follow ... the now-independent offspring of the Russian Orthodox Church. St. Olga is the third with Alaska Native heritage, emblematic ...