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The Basilica of Sant'Ambrogio (official name: Basilica romana minore collegiata abbaziale prepositurale di Sant'Ambrogio) [1] is an ancient Romanesque-style, Roman Catholic church in the center of Milan, region of Lombardy, Italy.
The church was rebuilt by Giovanni Battista Foggini in the 17th century. [1] A legend says that on 30 December 1230 a chalice which had not been cleaned was, the next day, found to contain blood rather than wine by Uguccione, the parish priest. This Eucharistic miracle made the church a place of pilgrimage.
San Carlo al Corso view from top of Spanish Steps. The church of the Saints Ambrogio and Carlo al Corso is the national church of the Lombards, to whom in 1471 Pope Sixtus IV gave, in recognition of their valuable construction work of the Sistine Chapel, the small church of S. Niccolò del Tufo, which was first restored and then dedicated to S. Ambrogio, the patron saint of Milan.
The Monastero or Eremo di Sant'Ambrogio (Monastery or Hermitage of St Ambrose) is a 14th-century Roman Catholic church and monastery located on Via Guido Bonarelli #5 nestled on high slopes of Monte Foce (Monte Calvo), north of Gubbio, region of Umbria, in Italy. It was initially founded as a rustic Franciscan hermitage following Augustinian ...
13th-century Yaroslavl Gospels, with curtained ciborium in the centre; a common motif in Evangelist portraits. Images and documentary mentions of early examples often have curtains called tetravela hung between the columns; these altar-curtains were used to cover and then reveal the view of the altar by the congregation at points during services — exactly which points varied, and is often ...
Archeological research has discovered parts of the temple and porch beneath the current Sant’Ambrogio buildings. [ 3 ] The name "Massima" may derive from the Cloaca Maxima , a branch of which flows nearby, [ 4 ] or from the Porticus Maximae , the long arcaded road passed in the immediate vicinity of the church. [ 5 ]
The Sacra di San Michele, sometimes known as Saint Michael's Abbey, is a religious complex on Mount Pirchiriano, situated on the south side of the Val di Susa in the territory of the municipality of Sant'Ambrogio di Torino, in the Metropolitan City of Turin, Piedmont region of northwestern Italy.
The convent, which stretched on the right side of the basilica of Sant'Ambrogio, was built by Benedictine monks in the eighth century and was sold in the fifteenth century by Cardinal Ascanio Sforza, brother of Ludovico il Moro, the Cistercian monks of Clairvaux. The cardinal ordered at that time to Bramante reconstruction of the monastery.