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- noun (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)
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Examples
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One of these arms was known as St. Ambrose's Road, in right of the church, an incomplete structure in yellow brick, consisting of a handsome chancel, the stump of a tower, and one aisle just weather-tight and usable, but, by its very aspect, begging for the completion of the beautiful design that was suspended above the alms-box.
Nuttie's Father Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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This may refer to St. Ambrose’s legend that the rose grew, without thorns, in the Garden of Eden.
A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art Gertrude Grace Sill 1975
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This may refer to St. Ambrose’s legend that the rose grew, without thorns, in the Garden of Eden.
A Handbook of Symbols in Christian Art Gertrude Grace Sill 1975
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Sycamore St. "as well as" St. Ambrose, "a fractured memoir of the author's grade school alma mater.
ComicList Headlines 2008
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Sycamore St. "as well as" St. Ambrose, "a fractured memoir of the author's grade school alma mater.
ComicList Headlines 2008
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Frankie, basketball hero of the victory over St. Ambrose.
Shortcut Man P. G. Sturges 2011
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Frankie, basketball hero of the victory over St. Ambrose.
Shortcut Man P. G. Sturges 2011
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Early Jewish and Christian sources are similar: Origen, St. Jerome, St. Ambrose and the Talmud all associate Sodom with inhospitality, pride and greed.
Jay Michaelson: Who Are The Real Sodomites? Jay Michaelson 2011
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Early Jewish and Christian sources are similar: Origen, St. Jerome, St. Ambrose and the Talmud all associate Sodom with inhospitality, pride and greed.
Jay Michaelson: Who Are The Real Sodomites? Jay Michaelson 2011
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O felix culpa, O happy guilt, wrote St. Ambrose in the fourth century in his Easter Hymn.
Archive 2009-07-01 Lu 2009
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