AMBROSE (ANDREY SERTIS-KAMENSKIY) (1708-1771)  , arch-bishop of Moscow, was born at Nezhine in the government of Chernigov, and studied in the school of St Alexander Nevskiy, where he afterwards became a tutor . At the age of thirty-one he entered a monastery, where he took the name of Ambrose . Subsequently he was appointed archimandrite of the convent of New Jerusalem at Voznesensk . From this post he was transferred as bishop, first to the diocese of Pereyaslav, and afterwards to that of Krusitsy near Moscow, finally becoming archbishop of Moscow in 1761 . He was famous not only for his interest in schemes for the alleviation of poverty in Moscow, but also as the founder of new churches and monasteries . A terrible outbreak of plague occurred in Moscow in 1771, and the populace began to throng round an image of the Virgin to which they attributed supernatural healing power . Ambrose, perceiving that this crowding together merely enabled the contagion to spread, had the image secretly removed . The mob, suspecting that he was responsible for its removal, attacked a monastery to which he had retired, dragged him away from the sanctuary, and, having given him time to receive the sacrament, strangled him . Ambrose's works include a liturgy and translations from the Fathers .