The Baptismal Record of St. Alexis Toth, the “apostolic father of American Orthodox Rus'”, born March 18, 1854, in Olsavicza (modern-day Oľšavica, Slovakia). St. Alexis is considered one of the key figures in American Orthodox history, as his work led to the conversion of thousands of Greek Catholic Carpathian and Galician Rusyns to Orthodoxy.