Ambrose

(St.,) (ambrōz,) a doctor in the Latin Church of the 4th cent., B. at Treves, 340. Consecrated archbishop of Milan, 374, A. was repeatedly, in the discharge of his duty to the Church, brought into direct conflict with the highest secular authority. He rebuked Val ent in i an, defied Maximus, and, after the ma acre of The alonica, compelled the great Theodosius to a humiliating penance before admitting him to Christian communion. To him we owe the noble hymn, Te Deum Laudamus. No Father of the Church has a fame more wide, more beautiful, or more deserved. D. 397. [s. 25]