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St. Elias
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St. Elias 

mountains in the cordillera system of North America, in the US (Alaska) and Canada. Length, 350 km; highest peaks, Mt. Logan (6, 050 m) and Mt. St. Elias (5, 488 m). The mountains are composed of granite and sedimentary rocks. Above 500 m are large areas of snow and névé fields, which feed large glaciers reaching to the ocean; a number of small glaciers come together at the foot of the mountains to form vast glaciers, such as Malaspina. Coniferous forests grow on the lower slopes of the mountains.



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Saint Elias (Elijah) is one of the traditional feasts celebrated to ward off hail or thunder.
PERSECUTED FOR CHRIST Late last winter, a group of Christian Iraqi families gathered in the courtyard of Saint Elias Church in Ainkawa, a Christian town near the city of Irbil, in the Kurdish region of northern Iraq.
Paustian, MD, Helena Saint Elias Specialty Hospital, Anchorage, Alaska Saint James Healthcare, Butte Steven G.
 
 
 
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