Sitting down for a meal in Russia (Photo by Father Dimitrii Kultinov) Mitch Borden/KMXT Recently, some Alaskans made the long trip to Russia to see the home of a beloved orthodox saint. At the end of August, a group of about 16 people from all over Alaska went to Russia. This trip wasn’t a normal vacation, but a sanctioned pilgrimage by …
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Liturgy on the last day of the Saint Herman Pilgrimage. Mitch Borden/KMXT KMXT’s Mitch Borden Every year, people from all over the world come to Kodiak to honor Saint Herman of Alaska, who’s a saint in the Orthodox Church. This year the pilgrimage couldn’t make it to its final destination on Spruce Island because of bad weather. KMXT went to …
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Daria Safronova, archivist at St. Herman Russian Orthodox Seminary, examines a religious text handwritten in Alutiiq, which dates from the early 1900s. Brianna Gibbs/KMXT photos Brianna Gibbs/KMXT The recent rediscovery of a book, handwritten in Alutiiq and containing numerous gospels of the Bible, could play an important role in the on-going Alutiiq language revival on Kodiak Island. KMXT’s Brianna Gibbs …
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