Saint
Ambrose
A hierarch remembered in Western calendars, died around 752; few details survive.
- Feast
- October 16old style October 29
- Reposed
- 7528th century
- Place
- Cahors
- Order
- Hierarchs
Life
Ambrose was the thirteenth bishop of Cahors in France, who later lived as a hermit. After a pilgrimage to Rome, he fell asleep at the place now called Saint-Ambroise-sur-Arnon, in Berry. He died around the year 752. He is remembered on 16 October in the Western calendar (new style).
No other details have been preserved. He is honoured as a saint of the undivided Church, with no synodal canonization shown in the source.
Commemorated the same day October 16
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