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Saint Olga: Compassion, sacrificial love and healing
Fr John Shimchick on the life and continuing influence of an indigenous Alaskan saint
LAST SUMMER, THE ORTHODOX CHURCH in America (OCA) canonised its first female saint, Alaskan midwife, Olga Michael. Orthodoxy arrived in Alaska through Russian missionaries in the late 1700s. The territory became a Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. Russia sold Alaska to the United States in 1867, and Orthodox Christianity spread southwards through Canada and into Mexico. The Orthodox Church in America was granted independence – ‘autocephaly’ – in 1970. Several missionaries, clergy and lay-people are now recognised as saints. Saint Olga is the most recent. What is it about her life and continuing influence and interaction with people that makes her significant today?
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