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Who was Olga, the Alaska Native drawing devotion as Orthodoxy's new saint?
The first female Orthodox saint in North America was an Indigenous woman who spent her entire life with her Yup'ik family and ...
Alaska Native woman, 'everybody's helper,' is Orthodox church's first female North American saint
KWETHLUK, Alaska — It was in the dusty streets and modest homes of this remote Alaska Native village that Olga Michael ...
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50 Years On: St. Josemaría Escrivá, Opus Dei, and the Universal Call to Holiness
COMMENTARY: Pope St. John Paul II called him ‘the saint of ordinary life,’ but we could also name him the apostle of the ...
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Holy Spirit vicar to become a pastor, former deacon to be ordained a priest
Holy Spirit Parish is losing a senior parochial vicar next week, but will see a deacon who served the parish as a deacon ...
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Floydada family performs with massed choir at NYC’s Carnegie Hall
LIZ ADAMS | HESPERIAN-BEACON Bartók, Billie Holliday and the Beatles have all performed at New York City’s Carnegie Hall. And ...
Funeral held for Misericordia's Sr. Rosemary Connelly, known for helping people with disabilities
Sister Connelly, known for her work at the Misericordia in Rogers Park, died Thursday at the age of 94. Sister Connelly ...
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How This Eucharistic Miracle Helped Spark Corpus Christi
The Eucharistic miracle in Orvieto played a key role in launching the Solemnity of Corpus Christi. At right, a fresco from the Chapel of the Miracle in Orvieto Cathedral depicts the 13th-century ...