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✦ Feast Day c. AD 340–397

Feast of Ambrose of Milan

Ambrose's treatment of the Eucharist is precise: "That bread is bread before the words of the sacraments; when consecration takes place, the bread becomes the body of Christ." He does not say the bread signifies the body — he says it becomes the body. This is the language of real ontological change, stated as a bishop explaining the sacrament to the newly baptised.