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December 13
Miriam was the sister of Moses and Aaron. When the infant Moses was set afloat in a basket, she watched from a distance. After Pharaoh’s daughter found him, Miriam offered to find a Hebrew nurse and brought the child’s own mother. Scripture also remembers Miriam as a prophetess who helped lead the people out of Egypt. Her story includes a rebuke after she and Aaron challenged Moses, followed by a period outside the camp and her return.
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October 27
Olga Michael belonged to the Yup’ik community of Kwethluk in Alaska. Born in 1916, she married Nicolai Michael, who later became an Orthodox priest, and raised thirteen children. Her service took the form of ordinary necessities: sewing warm clothing, offering food and hospitality, baking church bread, and helping women through childbirth. The OCA remembers her attentive care for people in distress, including women who had suffered abuse. Her prayer and patience belonged to the same daily life as her work. She died in 1979. Orthodox Christians now honor her as a compassionate mother whose example gives dignity to quiet, practical service.
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December 13
Noah is remembered in Genesis for building the ark at God’s command. The OCA life recounts the preservation of his household through the flood and the covenant that followed. The Church reads the ark as an image of salvation.
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August 5
Nonna was the mother of Gregory the Theologian and the wife of Gregory of Nazianzus. Her son’s remembrance presents a woman whose prayer and example helped draw her husband toward Christian faith. After he became a bishop, Nonna served as a deaconess and devoted herself to charity. She managed domestic responsibilities while giving resources to people in need. Her later years included the deaths of two children and then her husband. The Church remembers her perseverance through those losses and the unity of worship, generosity, and family responsibility throughout her life.
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December 1
Philaret lived with his family at Amnia in Paphlagonia. The calendar remembers him giving generously to people in need, even after invasions had reduced his wealth. When his granddaughter married into the imperial family, he continued his charitable life and refused the rank offered to him. He later retired to a monastery near Constantinople.
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December 13
Rebecca was the wife of Isaac and the mother of Jacob and Esau. The OCA entry directs readers to the Genesis accounts of her family and notes that Saint Paul also mentions her.
Read the saint’s lifeThe directory indexes the OCA full-year calendar, including leap-day commemorations, alongside additional researched profiles. Calendar entries include individual saints, groups, icons and feasts. An entry count is not a count of unique saints. Categories are provisional; follow the linked source.
Dates show commemorations in the referenced calendar year. Movable feasts change annually, and local calendars may differ. Additional jurisdictions, original biographies and icon research remain in progress. This collection does not yet claim complete Eastern Orthodox coverage.
Calendar metadata was retrieved through Orthocal’s source repository and the Orthodox Church in America. Source-only calendar records link to their original accounts; researched profiles include individually sourced artwork.
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