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20 > St. Ambrose will host an April 4 symposium on cultural tradition and religious innovation of Saint Ambrose of Milan. The keynote address by author Cristina Sogno, PhD, will focus on Ambrose of Milan’s role in a pivotal moment in the transformation of Roman culture. > The center has a physical presence on campus in the Ambrose Room on the third floor of the library. > Finally and most notably, the center also has a director, Ethan Gannaway, PhD, who was hired as executive coordinator in the fall and will continue to teach history. “Ethan is a legit scholar. I am not,” Fr. Grant said. “If this center is going to succeed, it will be because of people like him. He is passionate, a fantastic teacher, a great writer, and he loves the century in which Ambrose lived.” Font of learning Over the next few years, the center will become the premier place for research and study of Saint Ambrose in the English-speaking world. It will do so through publications and translations, lectures and study abroad trips, symposiums and scholarships, and internships both in the United States and abroad in collaboration with the Academia Ambrosiana. The SAU center’s motto, fons luminus (font of learning) means it was founded to assist a global community of scholars who will contribute their insights to enriching Basillica of Saint Ambrose in Milan, Italy the Catholic church and today’s increasingly interconnected world. That is already happening with and for St. Ambrose students. James Hendricks ’14 just returned from the annual winter interim trip to Italy with Fr. Grant and Gannaway. The sophomore is so committed to the center and its mission that he is taking extra courses now so that he can devote his last semester of college to working for the center. “Even if I don’t get any academic credit for it, the knowledge and the experience I’ve gained already from those two guys. I feel obligated to help,” he said. “Walking into the Basilica Sant’ Ambrogio in Milan for the first time, it was just this simple space,” he said. “We walked around the altar to where Saint Ambrose rests in this glass coffin. To literally see him was to have a real connection with him. There he was, lying in front of me, and in some way, was still showing how we can all lead by his example. The truth is that we—as members of this Ambrose community—have a bond with this man that no one else will ever have. No one can identify with him the way that we can.” The experience echoes one that Fr. Grant had with a group of St. Ambrose students 12 years earlier in a small classroom in central India. “We were at this school, talking with the students, the teacher translating what we were saying. We would say five words, and then he would go on for five minutes. And at some point, he slipped into English,” Fr. Grant recalled. “Be proud of India! Be proud of India!” the teacher said. “I want that. I want Ambrosians to be proud of Saint Ambrose,” Fr. Grant declared. “To know that we have this connection with this man. And we have an opportunity—even a responsibility—to celebrate his legacy by modeling his life in ours.” For more information on the center for the study of Saint Ambrose of Milan, visit sau.edu/scene
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