Ambrose of Milan or Saint Ambrose (in Latin Aurelius Ambrosius), born in Augusta Treverorum in the Roman Empire (today Trier) in 339 and died on , was Bishop of Milan from 374 to 397. A Doctor of the Church, he is one of the four Fathers of the Western Church, along with Saint Augustine, Saint Jerome of Stridon and Saint Gregory the Great.
Saint Ambrose, Bishop of Milan
He is honored as a saint by both the Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church, who celebrate his feast day on December 7, the feast of the translation of his relics. In the Middle Ages, his main feast day took place either on , date of his death, either the , date of his episcopal ordination (Roman Martyrology).
According to Life of Ambrose written by his secretary Paulinus of Milan, his cradle was in the praetorian hall. One day while he was sleeping there, a swarm ofabeislands suddenly appeared and covered his face and mouth in such a way that it seemed as if insects were going in and out of his mouth. The bees then took flight and rose into the air to such a height that the human eye was no longer able to distinguish them. The event struck his father who said: "If this little child lives, he will be a great person." As the bees left his face, they left a little honey on it. This was considered an omen of his great eloquence.
As a teenager, he saw his mother and sister, who had dedicated her virginity to God, kissing the hands of priests. As a joke, he extended his right hand to his sister, assuring her that she should kiss it as she had kissed the priests. But she refused, considering Ambrose a child and someone who did not know what he was saying.
In Trier on the banks of the Moselle, Ambrose, who was about 25 years old, became, like his father, a high-ranking Roman official in the imperial administration. He was also the cousin of Senator Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, prefect of Rome. He wrote a defense of Christianity against the latter, after Symmachus formally requested the emperor to restore the Curia of ancient Rome to the Roman Curia.
Ambrose of Milan is depicted dressed as a bishop, with a pastoral crozier, and sometimes a whip with which he would have driven the Arians, considered heretical. This is the case, for example, of the work of the Italian sculptor Adolfo Wildt, of whom there is a plaster cast and a bronze copy, both in Milan.
Patron saint of beekeepers, he is sometimes represented with a hive made of woven straw symbolizing the gentleness of his eloquence.
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