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Cungagnaq (date of birth unknown - d. 1815) is venerated as a

Russian fur-hunting expedition was taken into custody after declining to leave San Pedro; one Russian source accused "the Spaniards of cruelty to the captives, stating that according to Kuskof’s^[4] report one Aleut who refused to become a Catholic died from ill-treatment received from the padre at San Francisco."^[5]

Martyrdom

According to the most fully developed version of the story, in 1815 a group of Russian employees of the

hunters, including Peter, was captured by Spanish soldiers, while hunting illicitly for seals near San Pedro, (which has variably been interpreted as either San Pedro, Los Angeles^[6] or as San Pedro y San Pablo Asistencia (in Pacifica, California). According to the original account, the soldiers took them to "the mission in Saint-Pedro" for interrogation.^[7] One Russian source states that after being taken prisoner near modern Los Angeles, the captives were taken to Mission Dolores—that is, modern San Francisco.^[3]^[8]

With threats of torture, the Roman Catholic priests attempted to force the Aleuts to deny their Orthodox faith and to convert to Roman Catholicism.

When the Aleuts refused, the priest had a toe severed from each of Peter's feet. Peter still refused to renounce his faith and the Spanish priest ordered a group of Native Americans, indigenous to California, to cut off each finger of Peter's hands, one joint at a time, finally removing both his hands. They eventually disemboweled him, making him a martyr to the Eastern Orthodox faith. The Spanish captors were about to torture the next Aleut when orders were received to release the other Russian and Native Alaskan prisoners.

Historicity

An account of the martyrdom of Peter the Aleut is contained in a lengthy letter written on Nov. 22, 1865, by Symeon Ivanovich Yanovsky to Damascene, abbot of the

St. Petersburg." And indeed, this earlier communication, his official dispatch to the company's main office—dated Feb. 15, 1820, five years after the event—also relates the story of St. Peter's martyrdom, albeit with different details.^[14]

The most significant difference is that Yanovsky's original brief letter of 1820 accompanied a Russian translation of an account given in 1819 by a Kodiak Islander with the Russian name "Ivan Kiglay". This is the only account that purports to be from a witness, and any differences found in other accounts (including in those of Yanovsky himself) are additions or embroideries that lack foundation or support. Kiglay's account describes the capture of Russian-led fur poachers by Spanish soldiers in the vicinity of San Pedro Bay (the modern Port of Los Angeles) and taken to "the mission in Saint-Pedro". (As there was no mission or settlement at San Pedro, it is unclear where the party was supposed to have been taken; the nearest mission would have been San Gabriel, although the non-mission village of Los Angeles would have been closer.) While the rest of the prisoners are removed to Mission Santa Barbara, Kiglay and another Kodiak Islander named Chukagnak—who had been wounded in a battle with the soldiers—are imprisoned separately at "the mission at Saint-Pedro", and the next day Indians acting at the behest of a Spaniard torture and kill Chukagnak. Kiglay is apparently going to receive the same treatment, until the Spaniard receives a letter that apparently gives other directions. Kiglay is reimprisoned, and eventually escapes to Fort Ross, where he gives his testimony. There is nothing in the account that links the execution of Chucagnak to a refusal on his part to abandon Orthodoxy. Instead, the eyewitness account states that the Kodiak islanders were all previously offered the opportunity to become Catholics, that they had all declined because they were already Christians, and then with the exceptions of Kiglay and Chukagnak were all transferred to Santa Barbara with no further mention of, or demand for, conversion.^[7]

Location of martyrdom and "San Pedro"

Peter the Aleut has been referred to as a "martyr of San Francisco".^[3]^[15] Additionally, many modern descriptions of the martyrdom of Peter the Aleut often describe the event as occurring "in San Francisco",^[16]^[17] and others describe the Native Alaskan traders as being brought "to San Francisco".^[3] Other sources can be found describing the event as occurring near Los Angeles or in Southern California.^[18] These varying descriptions of the location may be based on varying oral traditions, varying understandings of the relationship of the location of the martyrdom and Fort Ross, and also on varying interpretations of references to "San Pedro" in the original historical documents.

The earliest historical sources about the death of Peter the Aleut describe the event as taking place in or near "the mission of San Pedro".^[6]^[7]^[19] Some have taken this to refer to San Pedro y San Pablo Asistencia, a "sub-mission" of Mission San Francisco de Asís (also known as Mission Dolores). San Pedro y San Pablo Asistencia was located on the site of the modern-day Sánchez Adobe Park in modern-day Pacifica, California.

Others have interpreted the historical description to refer to the dock in

Catalina Island).^[6]^[19] These documents also describe the captured Native Alaskan traders as transferred to Fort Ross, by way of sequential stops in Santa Barbara and Monterey. This interpretation of a Southern Californian location for the martyrdom is further supported by a letter contemporaneous to the alleged martyrdom event from Franciscan Fr. José Señan dated June 19, 1816 (but which runs counter to the story of forced conversion and violence against the Native hunters from Alaska), which describes the capture and transfer of "Russian Indians" to the Santa Barbara Presidio from Mission San Buenaventura (in modern-day Ventura, California).^[19]

Veneration

According to Yanovsky's 1865 letter, upon receiving the report of Peter's death, St. Herman on Kodiak Island was moved to cry out, "Holy new-martyr Peter, pray to God for us!"^[3]

Peter the Aleut was glorified as a saint by the

September 24

or December 12.

There are a number of churches dedicated to him in North America: for example, the church at

Abita Springs, Louisiana.^[24]

Notes

^ Icon: St. Peter the Aleut, Creighton University
^ All Saints of North America, an Orthodox Church in Virginia, USA Archived June 27, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Saint Peter the Aleut, Oct 22 1999, University of Michigan
^ Ivan Kuskof was a sailor and official associated with the Russian-American Company
^ Bancroft, p. 308, see footnote referencing "Barânof, Shizneopissanie, 135-6; Khébnikof, Zapiski, 11; Tikhmenef, Istor. Obosranie, i. 213, 216."
^ ^a ^b ^c Namee, Matthew (et al, for comments following main article). "Primary Sources on St. Peter the Aleut" OrthodoxHistory.org (see both main article and following comments) Archived February 3, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
^ ^a ^b ^c Namee, Matthew. "Peter the Aleut: the original martyrdom account", OrthodoxHistory.org Archived December 15, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
^ McNichols Icon: St. Peter the Aleut and St. Andrew Bobola, SJ, Creighton University
^ Text of Yanofsky's account of the martyrdom of Peter the Aleut, contained in his letter to Abbot Damascene (at Orthodox Church in America website)
^ For a translation of the letter, see The Russian Orthodox Religious Mission in America, 1794-1837, pp. 80-89.
^ Moses, Bernard. "Charles III: Expulsion of the Jesuits (1767)", Spain's Declining Power in South America, 1730-1806 (Berkeley, Calif., 1919), pp. 104-106
^ Pollen, John Hungerford. "The Suppression of the Jesuits (1750-1773)." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 14. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. 25 Aug. 2014
^ Pollen, John Hungerford. "The Jesuits After the Restoration (1814-1912)." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 14. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. 25 Aug. 2014
^ See The Russian Orthodox Religious Mission in America, 1794-1837, cited below, p. 177.
^ Valadez, John. "Saint Peter: The First American Born Martyr". Death to the World. February 8, 2013
^ "Holy New Martyr Peter the Aleut" Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
^ Podmoshensky, (Abbot) Herman. "America’s New Saints - Protomartyrs Juvenal and Peter the Aleut" Orthodox America Archived December 12, 2000, at the Wayback Machine
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^ ^a ^b ^c Bucko, Raymond A., S.J. St. Peter the Aleut:Sacred Icon and the Iconography of Violence Creighton University Archived August 8, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
^ "History" The Port of Los Angeles Archived November 26, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
^ St. Peter the Aleut Orthodox Christian Church, Lake Havasu City, Ariz. Archived July 11, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
^ St. Peter the Aleut Church, Minot, ND
^ Holy Martyr Peter the Aleut Church, Calgary, AB
^ Saint Peter the Aleut Orthodox Mission, Southeast Louisiana

Sources

OCLC 648737 (Google Play Books link
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Farris, Glenn, "The Strange Tale of Saint Peter, the Aleut: A Russian Orthodox Martyr on the California Frontier". A paper presented at "The Spanish Missions and California Indians Symposium," D-Q University, 3 March 1990.

Ogden, Adele, The California Sea Otter Trade 1784-1848. (University of California Publications in History, 26). (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1941).

The Russian Orthodox Religious Mission in America, 1794–1837, with Materials Concerning the Life and Works of the Monk German, and Ethnographic Notes by the Hieromonk Gedeon. Originally published in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1894. Translated from the Russian by Colin Bearne; ed. by

Richard A. Pierce

(Kingston, Ont., Canada: Limestone Press, 1978).

Tarakanoff, Vassili Petrovitch, Statement of My Captivity Among the Californians (Los Angeles: Glen Dawson Press, 1953).

Tikhmenev, P. A, A History of the Russian-American Company. Translated and edited by Richard Pierce and Alton Donnelly. (Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 1978).

External links

[icon-1] Icon: St. Peter the Aleut, Creighton University

[allsaints-2] All Saints of North America, an Orthodox Church in Virginia, USA Archived June 27, 2013, at the Wayback Machine

[umich-3] Saint Peter the Aleut, Oct 22 1999, University of Michigan

[4] Ivan Kuskof was a sailor and official associated with the Russian-American Company

[5] Bancroft, p. 308, see footnote referencing "Barânof, Shizneopissanie, 135-6; Khébnikof, Zapiski, 11; Tikhmenef, Istor. Obosranie, i. 213, 216."

[primary-sources-6] Namee, Matthew (et al, for comments following main article). "Primary Sources on St. Peter the Aleut" OrthodoxHistory.org (see both main article and following comments) Archived February 3, 2011, at the Wayback Machine

[original-account-7] Namee, Matthew. "Peter the Aleut: the original martyrdom account", OrthodoxHistory.org Archived December 15, 2011, at the Wayback Machine

[8] McNichols Icon: St. Peter the Aleut and St. Andrew Bobola, SJ, Creighton University

[9] Text of Yanofsky's account of the martyrdom of Peter the Aleut, contained in his letter to Abbot Damascene (at Orthodox Church in America website)

[10] For a translation of the letter, see The Russian Orthodox Religious Mission in America, 1794-1837, pp. 80-89.

[11] Moses, Bernard. "Charles III: Expulsion of the Jesuits (1767)", Spain's Declining Power in South America, 1730-1806 (Berkeley, Calif., 1919), pp. 104-106

[12] Pollen, John Hungerford. "The Suppression of the Jesuits (1750-1773)." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 14. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. 25 Aug. 2014

[13] Pollen, John Hungerford. "The Jesuits After the Restoration (1814-1912)." The Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 14. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1912. 25 Aug. 2014

[14] See The Russian Orthodox Religious Mission in America, 1794-1837, cited below, p. 177.

[deathtotheworld-15] Valadez, John. "Saint Peter: The First American Born Martyr". Death to the World. February 8, 2013

[goarch-16] "Holy New Martyr Peter the Aleut" Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America

[17] Podmoshensky, (Abbot) Herman. "America’s New Saints - Protomartyrs Juvenal and Peter the Aleut" Orthodox America Archived December 12, 2000, at the Wayback Machine

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[Bucko-19] Bucko, Raymond A., S.J. St. Peter the Aleut:Sacred Icon and the Iconography of Violence Creighton University Archived August 8, 2007, at the Wayback Machine

[20] "History" The Port of Los Angeles Archived November 26, 2010, at the Wayback Machine

[21] St. Peter the Aleut Orthodox Christian Church, Lake Havasu City, Ariz. Archived July 11, 2012, at the Wayback Machine

[22] St. Peter the Aleut Church, Minot, ND

[23] Holy Martyr Peter the Aleut Church, Calgary, AB

[24] Saint Peter the Aleut Orthodox Mission, Southeast Louisiana

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-According to the most fully developed version of the story, in 1815 a group of Russian employees of the [[Russian American Company]] and their [[Aleut people|Aleut]] [[seal (mammal)|seal]] and [[otter]] [[hunter]]s, including Peter, was captured by [[Spain|Spanish]] soldiers, while hunting illicitly for seals near San Pedro, (which has variably been interpreted as either [[San Pedro, Los Angeles]]<ref name="primary-sources">[http://orthodoxhistory.org/2011/02/02/primary-sources-on-st-peter-the-aleut/ Namee, Matthew (et al, for comments following main article). "Primary Sources on St. Peter the Aleut" OrthodoxHistory.org (see both main article and following comments)]{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110203220643/"http://orthodoxhistory.org/2011/02/02/primary-sources-on-st-peter-the-aleut/" |date=February 3, 2011 }}</ref> or as [[San Pedro y San Pablo Asistencia]] (in [[Pacifica, California]]). According to the original account, the soldiers took them to "the mission in Saint-Pedro" for interrogation.<ref name="original-account">[http://orthodoxhistory.org/2011/10/24/peter-the-aleut-the-original-martyrdom-account/ Namee, Matthew. "Peter the Aleut: the original martyrdom account", OrthodoxHistory.org]{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111215105043/http://orthodoxhistory.org/2011/10/24/peter-the-aleut-the-original-martyrdom-account/ |date=December 15, 2011 }}</ref> One Russian source states that after being taken prisoner near modern Los Angeles, the captives were taken to Mission Dolores—that is, modern [[San Francisco]].<ref name=umich /><ref>[http://puffin.creighton.edu/jesuit/andre/i_unity.html McNichols Icon: St. Peter the Aleut and St. Andrew Bobola, SJ<!-- Bot generated title -->], Creighton University</ref> With threats of torture, the Roman Catholic priests attempted to force the Aleuts to deny their Orthodox faith and to convert to Roman Catholicism.
+According to the most fully developed version of the story, in 1815 a group of Russian employees of the [[Russian American Company]] and their [[Aleut people|Aleut]] [[seal (mammal)|seal]] and [[otter]] [[hunter]]s, including Peter, was captured by [[Spain|Spanish]] soldiers, while hunting illicitly for seals near San Pedro, (which has variably been interpreted as either [[San Pedro, Los Angeles]]<ref name="primary-sources">[http://orthodoxhistory.org/2011/02/02/primary-sources-on-st-peter-the-aleut/ Namee, Matthew (et al, for comments following main article). "Primary Sources on St. Peter the Aleut" OrthodoxHistory.org (see both main article and following comments)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110203220643/https:/// |date=February 3, 2011 }}</ref> or as [[San Pedro y San Pablo Asistencia]] (in [[Pacifica, California]]). According to the original account, the soldiers took them to "the mission in Saint-Pedro" for interrogation.<ref name="original-account">[http://orthodoxhistory.org/2011/10/24/peter-the-aleut-the-original-martyrdom-account/ Namee, Matthew. "Peter the Aleut: the original martyrdom account", OrthodoxHistory.org]{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111215105043/http://orthodoxhistory.org/2011/10/24/peter-the-aleut-the-original-martyrdom-account/ |date=December 15, 2011 }}</ref> One Russian source states that after being taken prisoner near modern Los Angeles, the captives were taken to Mission Dolores—that is, modern [[San Francisco]].<ref name=umich /><ref>[http://puffin.creighton.edu/jesuit/andre/i_unity.html McNichols Icon: St. Peter the Aleut and St. Andrew Bobola, SJ<!-- Bot generated title -->], Creighton University</ref> With threats of torture, the Roman Catholic priests attempted to force the Aleuts to deny their Orthodox faith and to convert to Roman Catholicism.
 When the Aleuts refused, the priest had a toe severed from each of Peter's feet. Peter still refused to renounce his faith and the Spanish priest ordered a group of [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|Native Americans]], indigenous to California, to cut off each finger of Peter's hands, one joint at a time, finally removing both his hands. They eventually disemboweled him, making him a martyr to the Eastern Orthodox faith. The Spanish captors were about to torture the next Aleut when orders were received to release the other Russian and Native Alaskan prisoners.
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 ==Location of martyrdom and "San Pedro"==
-Peter the Aleut has been referred to as a "martyr of San Francisco".<ref name="umich"/><ref name="deathtotheworld">[http://deathtotheworld.com/articles/st-peter-the-aleut/ Valadez, John. "Saint Peter: The First American Born Martyr". Death to the World. February 8, 2013]</ref> Additionally, many modern descriptions of the martyrdom of Peter the Aleut often describe the event as occurring "in San Francisco",<ref name="goarch">[http://www.goarch.org/chapel/saints_view?contentid=334 "Holy New Martyr Peter the Aleut" Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America]</ref><ref>[http://www.roca.org/OA/7/7a.htm Podmoshensky, (Abbot) Herman. "America’s New Saints - Protomartyrs Juvenal and Peter the Aleut" Orthodox America]{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001212150800/"http://www.roca.org/OA/7/7a.htm" |date=December 12, 2000 }}</ref> and others describe the Native Alaskan traders as being brought "to San Francisco".<ref name=umich/> Other sources can be found describing the event as occurring near Los Angeles or in Southern California.<ref>[http://www.synod.com/01newstucture/pagesen/news04/fortross.html]</ref> These varying descriptions of the location may be based on varying oral traditions, varying understandings of the relationship of the location of the martyrdom and Fort Ross, and also on varying interpretations of references to "San Pedro" in the original historical documents.
+Peter the Aleut has been referred to as a "martyr of San Francisco".<ref name="umich"/><ref name="deathtotheworld">[http://deathtotheworld.com/articles/st-peter-the-aleut/ Valadez, John. "Saint Peter: The First American Born Martyr". Death to the World. February 8, 2013]</ref> Additionally, many modern descriptions of the martyrdom of Peter the Aleut often describe the event as occurring "in San Francisco",<ref name="goarch">[http://www.goarch.org/chapel/saints_view?contentid=334 "Holy New Martyr Peter the Aleut" Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America]</ref><ref>[http://www.roca.org/OA/7/7a.htm Podmoshensky, (Abbot) Herman. "America’s New Saints - Protomartyrs Juvenal and Peter the Aleut" Orthodox America] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20001212150800/https:/// |date=December 12, 2000 }}</ref> and others describe the Native Alaskan traders as being brought "to San Francisco".<ref name=umich/> Other sources can be found describing the event as occurring near Los Angeles or in Southern California.<ref>[http://www.synod.com/01newstucture/pagesen/news04/fortross.html]</ref> These varying descriptions of the location may be based on varying oral traditions, varying understandings of the relationship of the location of the martyrdom and Fort Ross, and also on varying interpretations of references to "San Pedro" in the original historical documents.
-The earliest historical sources about the death of Peter the Aleut describe the event as taking place in or near "the mission of San Pedro".<ref name="primary-sources"/><ref name="original-account"/><ref name="Bucko">[http://moses.creighton.edu/jrs/2007/2007-3.html Bucko, Raymond A., S.J. St. Peter the Aleut:Sacred Icon and the Iconography of Violence Creighton University]{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070808195432/"http://moses.creighton.edu/jrs/2007/2007-3.html" |date=August 8, 2007 }}</ref> Some have taken this to refer to [[San Pedro y San Pablo Asistencia]], a "sub-mission" of [[Mission San Francisco de Asís]] (also known as Mission Dolores). San Pedro y San Pablo Asistencia was located on the site of the modern-day [[Sánchez Adobe Park]] in modern-day [[Pacifica, California]].
+The earliest historical sources about the death of Peter the Aleut describe the event as taking place in or near "the mission of San Pedro".<ref name="primary-sources"/><ref name="original-account"/><ref name="Bucko">[http://moses.creighton.edu/jrs/2007/2007-3.html Bucko, Raymond A., S.J. St. Peter the Aleut:Sacred Icon and the Iconography of Violence Creighton University] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070808195432/https:/// |date=August 8, 2007 }}</ref> Some have taken this to refer to [[San Pedro y San Pablo Asistencia]], a "sub-mission" of [[Mission San Francisco de Asís]] (also known as Mission Dolores). San Pedro y San Pablo Asistencia was located on the site of the modern-day [[Sánchez Adobe Park]] in modern-day [[Pacifica, California]].
 Others have interpreted the historical description to refer to the dock in [[San Pedro, Los Angeles]] (now located in modern-day [[Los Angeles]]), which was used at the time as a trading post by Spanish missionary monks from [[Mission San Gabriel Arcángel]].<ref>[http://portoflosangeles.org/idx_history.asp "History" The Port of Los Angeles]{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101126212805/http://portoflosangeles.org/idx_history.asp |date=November 26, 2010 }}</ref> Such an interpretation of "San Pedro" fits well with other references to geographical locations in the historical documents, including an island named Santa Rosa (interpreted to refer to [[Santa Rosa Island, California|Santa Rosa Island]]) an island named "Climant" (interpreted to refer to [[San Clemente Island]]) and an island named Ekaterina, (interpreted by some to refer to [[Santa Catalina Island, California|Catalina Island]]).<ref name="primary-sources"/><ref name="Bucko"/> These documents also describe the captured Native Alaskan traders as transferred to Fort Ross, by way of sequential stops in Santa Barbara and [[Monterey, California|Monterey]]. This interpretation of a Southern Californian location for the martyrdom is further supported by a letter contemporaneous to the alleged martyrdom event from Franciscan Fr. José Señan dated June 19, 1816 (but which runs counter to the story of forced conversion and violence against the Native hunters from Alaska), which describes the capture and transfer of "Russian Indians" to the Santa Barbara Presidio from Mission San Buenaventura (in modern-day [[Ventura, California]]).<ref name="Bucko"/>
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 According to Yanovsky's 1865 letter, upon receiving the report of Peter's death, [[Herman of Alaska|St. Herman]] on Kodiak Island was moved to cry out, "Holy new-martyr Peter, pray to God for us!"<ref name=umich/>
-Peter the Aleut was glorified as a saint by the [[Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia]] and locally glorified by the [http://www.dioceseofalaska.org/ Diocese of Alaska] of the [[Orthodox Church in America]] as the "Martyr of San Francisco" in 1980. His [[feast day]] is celebrated on [[September 24 (Orthodox Liturgics)|September 24]] or December 12.
+Peter the Aleut was glorified as a saint by the [[Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia]] and locally glorified by the [https://web.archive.org/web/20120810222355/http://dioceseofalaska.org/ Diocese of Alaska] of the [[Orthodox Church in America]] as the "Martyr of San Francisco" in 1980. His [[feast day]] is celebrated on [[September 24 (Orthodox Liturgics)|September 24]] or December 12.
 There are a number of churches dedicated to him in North America: for example, the church at [[Lake Havasu City]], [[Arizona]];<ref>[http://saintpeterthealeut.org/ St. Peter the Aleut Orthodox Christian Church, Lake Havasu City, Ariz.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120711031358/http://saintpeterthealeut.org/ |date=July 11, 2012 }}</ref> [[Minot]], [[North Dakota]];<ref>[http://www.oca.org/DIRlisting.asp?SID=9&KEY=OCA-MW-MINSPA St. Peter the Aleut Church, Minot, ND]</ref> [[Calgary]];<ref>[http://www.oca.org/DIRlisting.asp?SID=9&KEY=OCA-CA-CALSPM Holy Martyr Peter the Aleut Church, Calgary, AB]</ref> and [[Abita Springs]], [[Louisiana]].<ref>[http://www.roacusa.org/SaintPeter/htdocs/ Saint Peter the Aleut Orthodox Mission, Southeast Louisiana<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>