Biography of Ambrose Mediolansky

Article from the Encyclopedia "Tree": Drevo-info. Ambrose Mediolansky. As a child of the saint, the wonderful omen of his great future were revealed. So, once the bees covered the face of a sleeping baby and flew away after they left honey in his tongue. After the death of his father, the Ambrose family moved to Rome, where the future saint and his brother Satyr received a legal education brilliant at that time.

About a year, at the end of the course of sciences, Ambrose was appointed governor of the regions by the consular prefect of Liguria and Emilia, but lived in Mediolans. In the year, the bishop of Mediolana now Milan Avksentius died, and this entailed discord between the Orthodox and the Arians, since each side wanted to put their bishop. Ambrose, as the first mayor, went to church to maintain order.

When he turned to the crowd with a speech, some child suddenly shouted: “Ambrose is a bishop! Ambrose, who was still among the announced, reading himself unworthy, began to refuse. He even tried to disgrace himself, tried to flee from Mediolan. It came to Emperor Valentinian I - the order of which Ambrose did not dare to disobey. He accepted the holy baptism of the Orthodox priest and, having passed in seven days all the steps of the church hierarchy, on December 7, he was ordained the rank of bishop of Mediolansky and immediately distributed all his property, money and estate to the decoration of temples, the food of orphans and the poor, he himself turned to a strict ascetic life.

The Ambrose combined severe vigils and works with the performance of the duties of the shepherd. Saint Ambrose defending the unity of the church, vigorously opposed the spread of heresies. So, in the year he managed to put the Orthodox bishop in Sirmia, and in years he refused to transfer to the Ariana the Basilica of Mediolan. The preaching of St. Ambrose in defense of Orthodoxy had a deep effect.

This was evidenced by the famous father of the Western Church, Blessed Augustine, who took holy baptism in the year under the influence of the preaching of the bishop of Mediolan. Mosaic IV-V centuries. Ambrose, Milan the saint took an active part in state affairs. So, Grazian, having received from him an exposition of the Orthodox faith, removed, at the direction of the saint, from the Senate Hall in Rome Victoria, on which oaths were taken.

Fulfilled by pastoral boldness, the saint imposed on Theodosius I a harsh penny for the extermination of innocent residents of the city of Soluni. For him, there was no difference between the king and commoner: having allowed Theodosius from the penance, the saint did not allow the emperor to take communion in the altar, but forced to stand with all the flock.

The glory of Bishop Ambrose and his deeds attracted many followers from other countries to him. Scientists of the sages came to him from distant Persia to gain the truth. Fritigild, the queen of the warlike German tribe, Markomanov, who often attacked the Mediolan, asked the saint to instruct her in the Christian faith. The saint in a letter to her convincingly outlined the dogmas of the church.

The believed that the queen turned her husband into the Christianity and convinced him to conclude a peace treaty with the Roman Empire. Strictness was combined with the saint with extraordinary kindness. Endowed with the gift of miracles, he healed many from illness. Once in Florence, being in the house of the Decente, he resurrected the deceased boy. He died in the year, on Easter night.

His death was accompanied by many miracles, he appeared in the vision of the children baptized that same night. The saint was buried in a basilica in Mediolans, under the altar, between the martyrs Protasius and Gervasius. Saint Ambrose gained special fame as a wonderful church writer. In dogmatic works, he defended the Orthodox doctrine of the Holy Trinity, the sacraments and repentance of 5 books about faith; Explanation of the symbol of faith; About the embodiment; 3 books about the Holy Spirit; About the sacraments; 2 books about repentance.

In the works of Christian morality, he revealed the superiority of Christian moralizing before the moralizing of the Gentiles. The well -known work of the saint "On the duties of the clergy" indicates a deep awareness of the pastoral duty; It contains instructions not only on the conduct of the church service, but also moral instructions to the ministers of the church. Saint Ambrose was also a converter of church singing.

He introduced in the Western Church antiphone singing according to the Syrian model, known as the "Amphrosian melting"; Compiled 12 hymns that were performed during his lifetime.

Perhaps he composed a grateful solemn anthem of "praise God for you", which entered the worship of the Orthodox Church. Prayer for St. Used materials.