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Alaska Native woman, ‘everybody’s helper,’ is Orthodox church’s first female North American saint
Alaska Native woman, ‘everybody’s helper,’ is Orthodox church’s first female North American saint
Alaska Native woman, ‘everybody’s helper,’ is Orthodox church’s first female North American saint

Published on: 06/26/2025

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This image provided by the Diocese of Sitka and Alaska in June 2025 shows the official icon of St. Olga of Kwethluk, Matushka of All Alaska. (Diocese of Sitka and Alaska via AP)

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. As the wife of an Orthodox Christian priest, she was a “matushka,” or spiritual mother to many more.

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