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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.

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Death of St. Ambrose of Milan

One of the four original Doctors of the Western Church, Ambrose was elected bishop by popular acclamation while still a catechumen. He refused to hand over a basilica to Empress Justina for Arian worship, defended orthodoxy against imperial pressure, and baptised Augustine.

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