Saint
Nicola Yanney
Apostle of the Plains
A priest to the Arab Orthodox of the American West, who died of influenza in 1918; venerated by the faithful, not formally canonized.
- Reposed
- 191820th century
- Place
- Kearney, Nebraska (priest to Arab Orthodox Christians across the American West; died of the 1918 influenza)
Life
Father Nicola Yanney was a priest to the Arab Orthodox Christians of America in the early 20th century. He is venerated by the faithful, without synodal canonization, as the Apostle of the Plains.
He was born on 5 February 1873. He helped to found Saint George Church in Kearney, Nebraska, and regularly ministered to Orthodox Christians across the American West and Midwest, travelling long distances to reach small, scattered communities. He died of the Spanish flu on 29 October 1918.