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Olga of Kiev, who is better known as St. Olga (d. 969 CE) of Kievan Rus. After her husband, Igor of Kiev (r. 912-945 CE) is killed by the Drevlian tribe (a tribe of Early East Slavs), Olga seeks bloody...
St. Olga 879-969 Married in 903 to Prince Igor I of Kievan, Rus'. She was a cruel and barbarous woman (she scalded her husband's murderers to death in 945 and murdered hundreds of their followers) until she was baptized at Constantinople in 957. She then requested Emperor Otto I to send ...
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“Saint Olga, Mikhail Nestorov, 1892.”
Saint Olga by Milhail Nesterov — Oil on canvas, (1892-1893)
Hell hath no fury like a woman whose husband got ripped in half by birch trees. Here we tell the story of Olga of Kiev.
Yesterday was the feast of two very different saints: St. Benedict and St. Olga. The one lived a life of sanctity from a fairly early age, and spent a lifetime strengthening the foundations of God’s Church (and through that, the foundations of western civilization as a whole); the other was a pagan for most of her life and only found Christian faith and sanctity as an old woman. Yet both are honored as saints. St. Benedict delivering his rule St. Benedict is by far the better known saint, at…
Today we also celebrate the memory of the Grand Princess Olga of Kiev. Saint Olga, renowned for her wisdom and sobriety, in her youth…
