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Kwethluk, Alaska – 19 June 2025
1. Various of people awaiting the arrival of church officials including Metropolitan Tikhon and Archibishop Alexei
2. Various of church officials including Metropolitan Tikhon and Archibishop Alexei arriving by boat in Kwethluk, Alaska
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Anchorage, Alaska – 4 June 2025
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Archbishop Alexei, Diocese of Alaska:
“We are going to be having the glorification services or canonization service for the first Native American Orthodox saint, a Yup’ik woman who is the wife of a priest, known as Matushka Olga.”
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Kwethluk, Alaska – 19 June 2025
4. Medium shot of Metropolitan Tikhon arriving at Kwethluk
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Anchorage, Alaska – 4 June 2025
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Archbishop Alexei, Diocese of Alaska:
“And during her lifetime, her presence would bring peace. Her love could easily be felt and would be healing to the people of the region. And following her death, she would appear throughout North America and in Alaska, continuing to bring healing. And so her veneration has just spread very much throughout Alaska, throughout North America, even to other parts of the world.”
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Kwethluk, Alaska – 18 June 2025
6. Various of people worshipping at St. Olga’s former gravesite in the old church’s courtyard, collecting soil that was beneath her casket.
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Kwethluk, Alaska – 18 June 2025
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Wiz Ruppert, St. Olga’s granddaughter:
“And I’m one of those people that she helped."
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Kwethluk, Alaska – 19 June 2025
8. Various of church officials moving Olga’s remains to the old church’s courtyard for a ceremony performed by Metropolitan Tikhon
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Kwethluk, Alaska – 18 June 2025
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Wiz Ruppert, St. Olga’s granddaughter:
"After I got married, we tried to conceive with no luck, so I gave up and that night that I gave up, she came to me in a dream.”
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Kwethluk, Alaska – 19 June 2025
10. Metropolitan Tikhon and church officials performing a ceremony over St. Olga’s remains
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Kwethluk, Alaska – 18 June 2025
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Wiz Ruppert, St. Olga’s granddaughter:
“And then she said, ‘You will have a baby. You’re going to get pregnant, and you will have a girl. You will name her after me.’”
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Kwethluk, Alaska – 19 June 2025
12. Worshippers venerating at Olga’s casket ahead of canonization
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Kwethluk, Alaska – 18 June 2025
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Wiz Ruppert, St. Olga’s granddaughter:
“I became pregnant and then I was like thinking about my dream throughout that whole thing and wasn’t quite believing that it would happen and I’m like, and I told myself if I know, if I find out if it’s a girl then I know that it really is from my grandmother. So a few months after that we had the ultrasound and we found out that it was a girl, and I was streaming tears and I was like, it was real, it’s real.”
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Kwethluk, Alaska – 19 June 2025
14. Worshippers lining out the door and onto the sidewalk to venerate St. Olga
15. Worshippers in the church during the veneration of St. Olga
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Kwethluk, Alaska – 18 June 2025
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Carrie Frederick Frost, Professor of religion and culture at Western Washington University:
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Kwethluk, Alaska – 19 June 2025
17. Worshippers in the church during the veneration of St. Olga
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Kwethluk, Alaska – 18 June 2025
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