Saint Olga of Kiev: How One Woman Turned Vengeance into Sainthood (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798198061910)

SAINT OLGA OF KIEV: How One Woman Turned Vengeance into Sainthood

She was the most terrifying woman in Europe.

A queen who buried her enemies alive. Who locked a bathhouse and lit the fire. Who sent birds home with flames tied to their feet and turned a city to ash. They whispered her name in Kiev like a curse: Olga. The Wolf. The Vengeance.

Then she stepped into a river in Constantinople.

And came up a saint.

This is the true story of the grandmother of Russia, the widow who traded a throne of skulls for a cross of wood. Who walked away from the spear and picked up the water. Who knelt to the very people she had slaughtered and called it mercy. Who lost her son to the sword, but won a nation for Christ.

From the trench to the well. From the fire to the font. From the wolf to the lamb.

SAINT OLGA OF KIEV is not a story about perfect people. It is a story about what God does with the ruins. About how the grave is empty, so no life is too far gone. About how the most violent hands can become the most holy, one drop of mercy at a time.

You have a past. She had a trench.

You have a rage. She had a bathhouse.

You have a wound. She had a nation.

She gave it all to the water.

And the water gave her back to the world as a saint.

If you've ever wondered whether God can redeem the worst of you, this is your story.