On September 24, 1794, a small group of clergy and monks landed on the shores of Kodiak Island in Alaska.  They had been traveling for over a year from near Finland, through Siberia and across the ocean.  It was to be the longest missionary journey in history.  They had come to the shores of the new world to plant the Orthodox Church in America.

From that time until now, the Church has grown in size and witness.  Each generation bringing forth a new group of saints to guide the Church in America.  This book recounts the lives o these people and their work in planting Christ's Cross on American soil.  up until the present, the Church in America has canonized these twelve men because of their remarkable work and lives, their witness of holiness and sanctity, and the dedication of their lives and deaths to Christ.  The book also recounts the lives of three people who were influential in the spiritual growth of the Church.

The book includes Saints Herman, Juvenaly, Peter the Aleut, Innocent, Jacob, Tikhon, Alexis, Raphael of Brooklyn, New Martyr Alexander, John of Chicago, Nikolai Velimirovich., John of San Francisco, Metropolitan Leonty, and Archimandrite Sebastian and Matushka Olga of Alaska.

Fr. George A. Gray is the rector of St. Nicholas Church in Portland, Oregon.  This book is the latest reprint of the original.