In an intensely spiritual moment, Jackie Webb leaned over and kissed the image of Christ crucified Tuesday evening in the ...

SHENANDOAH — In an intensely spiritual moment, Jackie Webb leaned over and kissed the image of Christ crucified Tuesday evening in the sanctuary at St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Greek ...

Father Bohdan Vasyliv and others welcoming the Cross of Gratitude to St. Michael the Archangel Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, to display the cross for a month at the ...

St. Olga, a Yup'ik woman who died in 1979 at age 63, was a midwife, a mother of 13 and the wife of an Orthodox Christian ...

The Orthodox Church in America has its first female saint from North America. Hundreds of pilgrims joined several bishops in an elaborate ceremony to canonize St. Olga Michael in her remote home ...

In the foreground is the grave of Olga's husband, Nicolai Michael, who was a priest in Kwethluk. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen) AP Now, after an elaborate ceremony in her village of about 800 people in ...

Worshippers fill St. Nicholas Orthodox Church in Kwethluk, Alaska, on June 19, 2025, for the canonization ceremony of Matushka Olga Michael, who became the first female Orthodox saint in North ...

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