Born: August 21, 1567 France
Died: December 28, 1622 Lyon, France
Ambrose frequently helped the poor, secured pardons for the condemned, and denounced social injustices in his sermons. He was always happy to educate people interested in becoming baptized.
Saint Ambrose, Bishop of Milan, certainly did not found religious orders, though he took an interest in the monastic life and watched over its beginnings in his diocese, providing for the needs of a monastery outside the walls of Milan, as Saint Augustine recounts in his Confessions.
In 390 A.D. he excommunicated the Eastern Emperor Theodosius, because of his involvement with the massacre of 7000 citizens of Thessalonica, until he had done a public penance
Ambrose is also remembered as the teacher who converted and baptized St. Augustine of Hippo, the great Christian theologian, and as a model bishop who viewed the church as rising above the ruins of the Roman Empire. He is a patron saint of Milan and of beekeepers. St Ambrose is the patron saint of Milan, where he was a bishop. ... Ambrose's patronage of bees and beekeepers originates in the legend that when he was an infant, a swarm of bees settled on his face while he lay in his cradle. The swarm left him unharmed with a drop of honey on his face.
