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 Photo/Mark ...

Hundreds of people gathered in the Western Alaska village of Kwethluk on Saturday to witness the exhumation of Matushka Olga, who will become the first Yup’ik saint of the Russian Orthodox Church next ...

A procession of clergy, villagers, and pilgrims snaked through an Alaskan village to lay St. Olga of Kwethluk in her final resting place. A scene out of the Church’s history books played out in ...

Fr. Michael Nicholai pauses to offer the shovel to another clergyman while uncovering the grave of Matushka Olga during the process of her exhumation in Kwethluk on Nov. 16, 2024. (Courtesy Katie ...

KWETHLUK, Alaska – “St. Olga of Kwethluk, Matushka of All Alaska,” as she is officially known, was canonized on June 19 as the first female Orthodox saint from North America. Orthodoxy — the world’s ...

KWETHLUK, Alaska (AP) — “St. Olga of Kwethluk, Matushka of All Alaska,” as she is officially known, was canonized on June 19 as the first female Orthodox saint from North America. Orthodoxy — the ...

Matushka, from the Russian word for mother, is a term of respect for Orthodox priest's wives. "Matushka Olga" fulfilled that role of spiritual mother — counseling women who suffered abuse or griefs ...