Saint Olga
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- Also known as
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Helena;
Helga;
Olha
- Memorial
- 11 July
- Profile
- First Christian queen of Ukraine.
Wife of Igor I, duke of Kiev at age 24.
Ruled Kiev after Igor's assassination in 945.
Following her conversion and baptism in 957 in Constantinople, when she took the name Helena, she tried to introduce Christianity to the Ukraine on a wide scale, but failed.
When her son Sviatoslav reached adulthood, she handed the throne to him.
Grandmother of Saint Vladimir, great-grandmother of Saints Boris and Gleb.
- Born
- 879 at Pskov
- Died
- 11 July 969;
relics found to be incorrupt, and translated to the Church of the Tithes in Kiev, the first time relics were displayed in Rus-Ukraine;
relics lost forever in the early 18th century
- Patronage
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converts,
widows
- Additional Information
- Ecole Initiative
- Print References
- The Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
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