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Richard Chapin <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 19 Sep 1996 23:53:30 -0500
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To add to the info. requested about St. Ambrose, from "The Calendar of
Saints", etc.:
He was such an excellent Roman governor (Ligouria) that, when the old
bishop died, he went to the election and a child called out "Abrose for
Bishop!"; then all the people in the cathedral demanded that he become
their Bishop.  Not yet baptized as a Christian, he finally agreed, gave the
governing over to his brother and his property to charity, and studied for
baptism, diaconate, priesthood and episcopate.  He drove out the Arian
heretics, reproved vice, tended the sick and redeemed captives.  He wrote
many works about the Faith, and the Incarnation.  When the Emperor allowed
a massacre of 7,000 people, Ambrose excommunicated him until he had done
public penance.  Ambrose's most famous convert was St. Augustine.  It is
claimed that his relics are in the Church of San Ambrogio in Milan.
 
Can't find the reference now, but recall something about a legend that he
had something to do with a beehive as a young child, and was not harmed by
the bees.  His statues and his likenesses on holy cards usually have a skep
at his feet, and he is considered the Patron Saint of all beekeepers.
I'll bet Larry Connors has a book about him :)
 
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