St. Olga’s sainthood is especially meaningful because many women canonized by the church have been ancient martyrs or nuns, said Carrie Frederick Frost, a professor of religion and culture at Western Washington University who studies women and Orthodoxy.
"One of the reasons they are growing is because they are presenting a message that is attractive to people that already have a strong background in Christianity," Holly Folk, a professor at Western Washington University who has researched the CAG up close since 2016, told…