Concerning Virgins

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Concerning Virgins or De Virginibus is a set of letters, collected into 3 “books,” St. Ambrose wrote a letter to his sister, Manellia, These, were probably one of Ambrose’s first works, composed in 377 CE.

Indited in a quite simple and easy way, they were shown as moral references to ladies who are thinking of becoming a monk. Most significantly, they became founds for Ambrose’s future works on morality.

Concerning Virgins was insinuated by other patristic authors such as St. Jerome, St Augustine and Cassian, and are now included in the extra-biblical cannon of the early church fathers.

Aurelius Ambrosius or in Italian: Sant’Ambrogio, known best as Saint Ambrose, was a bishop of Milan who came to be among the highly distinguished ecclesiastical personages during the 4th century. He became the Roman governor of Liguria and Emilia, stationed in Milan, before becoming bishop of Milan by renowned acclaim in 374. Ambrose was an unfaltering adversary of Arianism, and has been denunciated of furthering torment of Arians, Jews, and pagans.

Customarily, Ambrose is attributed with encouraging an antiphonal chant, a manner of singing in which the first section of the choir replies interchangeably to the other, along with arranging Veni redemptor gentium, an Advent praise.

Ambrose was among the 4 foremost Doctors of the Church, and is the patron saint of Milan. He is prominent for his acclaim on Augustine of Hippo.

Ambrose pondered the needy not a varied knot of interlopers, however a section of the joined, solidary population. Offering something to the needy was not to be thought as kindness to the peripheries of a community but a settlement of means that the Almighty God had primarily given on all people in equal portions and that the wealthy had seized.

Ambrose himself was an exultant person, as the earth added up exhilaration, for illustrious figures deemed him in respect.
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