Ambrose
Roman theologian and Bishop of Milan (c. 340-397) · Germany · Academics · Lived 339 to 397 · aged 58
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Something wrong?A Roman governor drafted into a bishopric by a crowd that wouldn't take no for an answer, he ended up outlasting emperors, shaping doctrine, writing hymns still sung seventeen centuries later, and nudging Augustine toward the conversion that would reshape the West.
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0091 - Milano - Sant'Ambrogio - Canonica - Frammento di lapide - Foto Giovanni Dall'Orto 25-Apr-2007
0437 - Milano - San Nazaro - Prima epigrafe di S. Ambrogio - Foto Giovanni Dall'Orto 5-May-2007
0438 - Milano - San Nazaro - Epigrafe per S. Nazaro - Foto Giovanni Dall'Orto 5-May-2007
3260 - Milano, Duomo - Copia del Crismon Sancti Ambrosii - Foto Giovanni Dall'Orto - 11-Febr-2007
Hans Johan Frederik Berg, copy after Moretto da Brescia - Virgin and Child Enthroned with the Four Fathers of the Latin Church - NG.K&H.A.K.1175 - National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design
Chrismon Sancti Ambrosii
De officiis ministrorumIn their own words 8
, Accordingly, death is a harbor of peace for the just, but is believed a shipwreck for the wicked.
It is not death therefore that is burdensome, but the fear of death.
It was not by dialectic that it pleased God to save His people.
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Ambrose was serving as Roman governor of Aemilia-Liguria around 374 when popular acclamation suddenly made him Bishop of Milan, a post he'd hold until his death in 397. He took a hard line against Arianism, mediated between rival emperors Theodosius I and Magnus Maximus, and left a substantial body of writing - including the ethical commentary De officiis ministrorum and the exegetical Exameron. His preaching helped convert Augustine of Hippo to Christianity, a hinge moment in Western thought. He authored at least four hymns, among them "Veni redemptor gentium," anchoring the Ambrosian hymn tradition. Western Christianity named him one of the four Great Latin Church Fathers in 1298, and he remains patron saint of Milan and beekeepers.
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