Matushka, from Russian for mother, is a term of respect for Orthodox priest's wives. "St. Olga of Kwethluk, Matushka of All Alaska," as she is officially known, was canonized on June 19 as the first ...
A Western Alaska woman who died in 1979 has been named the first female Orthodox Church saint from North America. Born in 1916, Olinka Arrsamquq Michael, known as “Matushka Olga,” was known in life as ...
KWETHLUK — A procession of boats shot up the glassy Kuskokwim River on Thursday morning in low fog, passing fish camps, eroded banks and tangles of alder, ferrying pilgrims on their way to witness ...
September 24/October 7 the Orthodox Church remembers All Saints of Alaska, including the well-known and much-beloved Sts. Herman, Innocent, Juvenaly, Jacob, and Peter, among others. There are other, ...
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