St. Peter the Aleut is an Alaskan saint who was martyred in California in 1815. As the story goes (many details are uncertain), he was an Alaskan …
American Saints: St. Varnava (Nastić)
St. Varnava of Hvosno Unlike many of our American saints, St. Varnava was born in America—with the name Vojislav Nastić to a family of Serbian …
American Saints: St. Matej Stiyachich
St. Matej Stiyachich St. Matej Stiyachich was born in 1883 in Herzegovina, part of what later became Yugoslavia. He was a married priest with several …
American Saints: St. Teofan (Beatovich)
St. Teofan (Beatovich) Of the three Serbian martyrs of the Iron Range, St. Teofan (Beatovich) lived the longest in northern Minnesota. He worked for …
American Saints: St. Bogolyub Gakovich
St. Bogolyub Gakovich St. Bogolyub of Chisholm is one of three American saints from this iron-mining area around Lake Superior in the United States …
American Saints: St. Seraphim of Uglich
St. Seraphim of Uglich St. Seraphim of Uglich was born Semyon Nikolayevich Samoilovich in the Poltava Province of what is now western Ukraine, in the …
American Saints: St. Anatole (Kamensky) of Irkutsk
New Hieromartyr Anatole (Kamensky), Archbishop of Irkutsk St. Anatole was born Alexei Vasilevich Kamensky in Russia in 1863. After seminary training …
American Saints: St. Mardarije (Uskokovic)
St. Mardarije of Libertyville The first Serbian Bishop of American and Canada helped build St. Sava Monastery in Libertyville, Illinois, with his own …
American Saints: St. Vasily Martysz
New Martyr Archpriest Vasily Martysz St. Vasily Martysz lived in North America from 1900 to 1912, serving in locations from the wilds of Alaska to …
American Saints: St. Alexis Toth
St. Alexis of Wilkes-Barre St. Alexis Toth, part of the wave of Eastern European immigrants to America in the late 1800s, arrived as an Eastern-rite …