Lady, full and overflowing with grace, all creation receives new life from your abundance. Virgin, blessed above all creatures, through your blessing all creation is blessed, not only creation from its Creator, but the Creator himself has been blessed by creation. (Saint Anselm, +1109)
Day: December 7, 2025
Pope Benedict and Saint Ambrose
BENEDICT XVI GENERAL AUDIENCE Saint Peter’s Square Wednesday, 24 October 2007 Saint Ambrose of Milan Dear Brothers and Sisters, Holy Bishop Ambrose – about whom I shall speak to you today – died in Milan in the night between 3 and 4 April 397. It was dawn on Holy Saturday. The day before, at[…]