The life of St Olga of Kiev
She went to Constantinople and was baptized there, and took the name Helen. The emperor stood godfather to her, and when he afterward asked for her in marriage she reminded him that he had called her his daughter at the font, and he let the matter go. She came home and pressed her son Svyatoslav to be baptized. He would not, though he did not forbid others. In her last years, when the old religion was strong again in Kiev, she kept a priest by her quietly. She died in July, and before she died she forbade them to hold the pagan mourning over her and told them to bury her as a Christian, and a priest did it. Twenty years after her death her grandson Vladimir brought the whole land to baptism.
