The Influence Of Ambrose On The Western Church

After becoming the bishop of Milan, Ambrose made many changes within the Western Church. He was accountable for the two first theological works written in Latin, which were De Sacramentis on the Sacraments and De Spirtu Sancto on the Holy Spirit. Ambrose was also able to instruct and strengthen the process of preparing for Baptism. He reformed the Church’s way of singing by introducing singing into the Western Church. The singing that was done in the church at the time was known as the “Ambrosian Chant.” Ambrose was a great bishop that made one of his goals to make sure that the poor people of Milan were taken care of. He even gave his personal items away to the poor. Ambrose was able to preach to a professor named Augustine and while Augustine
Jerome. He was born as Eusebius Hieronymus Sophronis in the year 347 AD in Stridon. Jerome was sent to a pagan school but his father taught him his religion as well. Jerome began to like the pagan writings and lost some of his love and faith for God. Although Jerome grew up learning the pagan background due to his schooling, he decided to be baptized by Pope Liberius in 360 AD. Jerome then decided to live in the desert and resided there for four years. He started out with some of his friends and some of them died and other decided to leave the desert. He entered the desert for penance from his love of pagan writings that he thought would lead him away from God. He practiced self-discipline and although he faced some illnesses in the desert, he also suffered from temptation. He had visions of himself dancing with women and admitted to feeling a lot of desires. Instead of feeding into his temptations, he decided to throw his spirit at the feet of Jesus and watering Jesus’ feet with his tears. Jerome loved God and Jesus Christ but had a very bad temper and made many enemies in his lifetime. St. Jerome was a master in the languages of Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and Chaldaic. St. Jerome is the patron saint of librarians and his feast day is on September 30. St. Jerome made an important impact within the Western Church and he was also one of the Doctors of the Church. He was able to translate the Bible into Vulgate. This was important because very few men during Jerome’s time and afterward were able to do the work and the translation was declared as the authentic text used in the Western