Olga of kiev

Saint of the Day – 11 July – Saint Olga Queen of Kiev (c 890-969) Queen of the Ukraine – born c 890 at Pskov, Russia and died on 11 July 969 in Kiev, Ukraine of natural causes. …

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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 ...

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…

God wants us to love our enemies. He doesn’t want us to pretend that we don’t have enemies.

Although I'm now home in America, I'm going to keep posting as if we recently had these adventures around Europe. I'll post the dates we actually visited these locations at the start of each posts in an attempt to keep things straight. Princess Olga of Kiev Statue Visited: April 11th, 2013 In the square near St. Michael's Cathedral in Kiev you can find a monument to Princess Olga of Kiev who ruled the Kievan Rus from 945-964. Her husband Igor of Kiev was ruler until his death and Olga took…

Every girl dreams of being not only a princess, but also a warrior. Well, in Slavic mythology many of the women are warrior-princesses. The perfect combo!

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...