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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 800 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 . At the See also:age of See also:thirty-one he entered a monastery, where he took the name of See also:Ambrose . Subsequently he was appointed See also:archimandrite of the See also:convent of New See also:Jerusalem at See also:Voznesensk . 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 . 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 . 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 . Ambrose, perceiving that this crowding together merely enabled the contagion to spread, had the image secretly removed . 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 to receive the See also:sacrament, strangled him . Ambrose's See also:works include a See also:liturgy and See also:translations from the Fathers .

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