SAINT OLGA
SAINT OLGA
Saint Olga was born in 879 and married in 903 to Prince Igor I or Kieve, Russia. She was a cruel and barbarous woman she scalded her husband’s murderers to death in 945 and murdered hundreds of their followers. She was baptized at Constantinople in 957. She then requested Emperor Otto I to send missionaries to Kiev. Saint Adalbert of Magdeburg was sent and the queen exerted great efforts but the mission was a failure. Her attempts to convert her son,
Svyatoslav, also failed. Christianity was introduced however by her grandson Saint Vladimir. She died in 969.
Feast day is July 11.
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