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Ambrosian

Ambrosian \Am*bro"sian\, a. Of or pertaining to St. Ambrose; as, the Ambrosian office, or ritual, a formula of worship in the church of Milan, instituted by St. Ambrose.

Ambrosian chant, the mode of signing or chanting introduced by St. Ambrose in the 4th century.

Ambrosian

Ambrosian \Am*bro"sian\, a. Ambrosial. [R.]
--. Jonson.

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ambrosian

a. Of or relating to (w: St Ambrose).

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Angeli Lugano, altar-pieces Duomo Como, Ambrosian Library Milan, Brera, Uffizi, Louvre, Madrid, St.

Cardinal Frederic Borromeo, who used it as the basis for the Ambrosian Library which he was at that time establishing in Milan.

In over two thousand closely printed pages, it managed to include all the festal days, the Hours of the monastic Office, the complex and elaborate rites once performed between Holy Thursday and Easter Sunday, the psalms and their intonations, a wealth of antiphons, Glorias, Credos, Introits, Graduals, smatterings of Ambrosian and even Gallican chant, and much more.

We had one of the most beautiful of the Ambrosian hymns, and possibly Dr.

The Church at Milan maintains the Ambrosian liturgy to the present date.

FSP cruiser as the transport ship broke for the edge of the Ambrosian system.

We have not yet mentioned the Ambrosian Library in Milan, nor, except the Vatican, a single library by name in Rome.

Scarcely had he done so, when the most curious sensation overcame him--a sensation of bewildering ecstasy as though he had drunk of some ambrosian nectar or magic drug which had suddenly wound up his nerves to an acute tension of indescribable delight.

The music was heavenly, both Gregorian and Ambrosian, and the church was packed.

For when they were revealed and dug up and with due honour transferred to the Ambrosian Basilica, not only they who were troubled with unclean spirits (the devils confessing themselves) were healed, but a certain man also, who had been blind 684 many years, a well-known citizen of that city, having asked and been told the reason of the people’s tumultuous joy, rushed forth, asking his guide to lead him thither.