Church Father Ambrose

St. Ambrose, Church Father and bishop of Milan, seated in a church vault. He wears the bishop's mantle and his mitre lies next to him on a bench. He is leafing through a book. Before him a beehive and a scourge, the personal attributes of St. Ambrose. The beehive refers to the swarm of bees that sat on his mouth when he was a baby. The scourge (with two knots) refers to his efforts in eradicating Arianism (in the original print three knots). The print bears an inscription with Ambrose's name and a Latin inscription. The series concerns the four Church Fathers.