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Saint Ambrose   /seɪnt ˈæmbrˌoʊz/   Listen
Saint Ambrose

noun
1.
(Roman Catholic Church) Roman priest who became bishop of Milan; the first Church Father born and raised in the Christian faith; composer of hymns; imposed orthodoxy on the early Christian church and built up its secular power; a saint and Doctor of the Church (340?-397).  Synonyms: Ambrose, St. Ambrose.






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"Saint Ambrose" Quotes from Famous Books



... support so unscriptural a thesis. As regards the language of the line in question, I am bold to say that He who readeth the hearts of men will not account any dialect unseemly which conveys a sound, and pious sentiment. I could wish that such sentiments were more common, however uncouthly expressed. Saint Ambrose affirms, that veritas a quocunque (why not, then, quomodocunque?) dicatur, a, spiritu sancto est. Digest also this of Baxter: "The plainest words are the most profitable oratory ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell



Words linked to "Saint Ambrose" :   father, bishop, theologian, Roman Church, composer, Church Father, Church of Rome, Doctor of the Church, theologiser, theologist, Father of the Church, theologizer, saint, St. Ambrose, doctor, Western Church, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic



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