See also:AMBROSE (ANDREY SERTIS-KAMENSKIY) (1708-1771)
, See also:arch-See also:bishop of See also:Moscow, was See also:born at Nezhine in the See also:government of See also:Chernigov, and studied in the school of St See also:Alexander Nevskiy, where he afterwards became a See also:tutor
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At the See also:age of See also:thirty-one he entered a monastery, where he took the name of See also:Ambrose
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Subsequently he was appointed See also:archimandrite of the See also:convent of New See also:Jerusalem at See also:Voznesensk
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From this See also:post he was transferred as bishop, first to the See also:diocese of Pereyaslav, and afterwards to that of Krusitsy near Moscow, finally becoming See also:archbishop of Moscow in 1761
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He was famous not only for his See also:interest in schemes for the alleviation of poverty in Moscow, but also as the founder of new churches and monasteries
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A terrible outbreak of See also:plague occurred in Moscow in 1771, and the populace began to throng See also:round an See also:image of the Virgin to which they attributed supernatural healing See also:power
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Ambrose, perceiving that this crowding together merely enabled the contagion to spread, had the image secretly removed
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The See also:mob, suspecting that he was responsible for its removal, attacked a monastery to which he had retired, dragged him away from the See also:sanctuary, and, having given
him See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time to receive the See also:sacrament, strangled him
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Ambrose's See also:works include a See also:liturgy and See also:translations from the Fathers
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