07 Works, Today, July 2nd, is Juvenaly of Alaska’s day, his story in icons #183
1 min readJul 2, 2020
St. Juvenaly — First Martyr of America
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The holy, glorious, right-victorious hieromartyr Juvenaly of Alaska, Protomartyr of America, was a member of the first group of Orthodox missionaries who came from the monastery of Valaam to preach the Word of God to the native inhabitants of Alaska. He was martyred while evangelizing among the Eskimos on the mainland of Alaska in 1796…