Milan, 386, the improbable holy week of Saint Ambrose
As Easter approached 386, the mother of the Emperor Valentinian, a convinced Arian, sought to lose Ambrose (339-397), bishop of Milan. She demands that he give her a basilica. Faced with her refusal, she sends her soldiers to seize the basilica. But it was without counting on the help of the faithful. Italy, 386. It’s […]