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AnItaliantheologian and writer, b. at Portico, nearFlorence, 16 September, 1386; d. 21 October, 1439. His name was Ambrose Traversari. He entered the Order of the Camaldoli when fourteen and became its General in 1431. He was a greattheologian and writer, andknew Greek as well as he did Latin. These gifts and his familiarity with the affairs of theChurch ledEugenius IV to send him to the Council of Basle, where Ambrose strongly defended the primacy of theRoman pontiff and adjured the council not to rend asunderChrist's seamless robe. He was next sent by the Pope to the Emperor Sigismond to ask his aid for the pontiff in his efforts to end this council, which for five years had been trenching on thepapal prerogatives. The Pope transferred the council from Basle toFerrara, 18 September, 1437. In this council, and later, in that of Florence, Ambrose by his efforts, and charity toward some poor Greekbishops, greatly helped to bring about a union of the two Churches, thedecree for which, 6 July, 1439, he was called on to draw up. He died soon after. His works are a treatise on theHoly Eucharist, one on the Procession of the Holy Ghost, many lives ofsaints, a history of his generalship of theCamaldolites. He also translated from Greek into Latin a life ofChrysostom (Venice, 1533); the Spiritual Wisdom ofJohn Moschus; the Ladder ofParadise ofSt. John Climacus (Venice, 1531), P.G., LXXXVIII. He also translated four books against theerrors of the Greeks, by Manuel Kalekas,Patriarch of Constantinople, aDominicanmonk (Ingolstadt, 1608), P.G., CLII, col. 13-661, a work known only through Ambrose's translation. He also translated manyhomilies ofSt. John Chrysostom; the treatise of thepseudo-Denis the Areopagite on the celestialhierarchy;St. Basil's treatise on virginity; thirty nine discourses of St. Ephrem the Syrian, and many other works of the Fathers and writers of theGreek Church.Dom Mabillon's "Letters and Orations of S. Ambrose of Camaldoli" was published atFlorence, 1759. St. Ambrose ishonoured by theChurch on 20 November.
HEFELE,Hist. of Councils (Edinburgh, 1871-96), XI, 313 sqq., 420, 463; MANSI,Coll. sacr. council. (Venice, 1788, 1792, 1798), XXIX, XXX, XXXI; EHRHARD in KRUMBACHER,Geschichte der byzantinischen Literatur, 2d ed. (Munich, 1897), 111-144.
APA citation.A'Becket, J.J.(1907).St. Ambrose of Camaldoli. InThe Catholic Encyclopedia.New York: Robert Appleton Company.http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01388a.htm
MLA citation.A'Becket, John Joseph."St. Ambrose of Camaldoli."The Catholic Encyclopedia.Vol. 1.New York: Robert Appleton Company,1907.<http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01388a.htm>.
Transcription.This article was transcribed for New Advent by Vivek Gilbert John Fernandez.Dedicated to Jane-Anne, Librarian at St Ignatius' College Riverview, Sydney Australia.
Ecclesiastical approbation.Nihil Obstat. March 1, 1907. Remy Lafort, S.T.D., Censor.Imprimatur. +John Cardinal Farley, Archbishop of New York.
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