Ambrose of Milan
Feast · hierarch
- 7 December (Roman Catholic Church)
- 7 December (Eastern Orthodox Church)
7 December is not the day he died — that was 4 April 397 — but the day he was consecrated bishop of Milan, having been a catechumen a week before. A rare case of a feast keeping a beginning rather than an end.
After New Advent (Fathers and Catholic Encyclopedia).
Commemorating
- Ambrose commemorates
Where this is recorded
- Roman Catholic Church — the day, after Universal Norms on the Liturgical Year and the Calendar
- Eastern Orthodox Church — the day, after OrthodoxWiki
Glosses
- Why a saint's day is the day they died A feast is normally the dies natalis — the day of death, understood as the day of birth into heaven. The custom begins with the martyrs and is visible in the Martyrdom of Polycarp, whose church resolved to gather at…