Editing Ambrose (section)

===Mariology===
The theological treatises of Ambrose of Milan would come to influence Popes [[Pope Damasus I|Damasus]], [[Siricius]] and [[Leo XIII]]. Central to Ambrose is the [[virginity]] of Mary and her role as [[Mother of God]].<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.sydneycatholic.org/news/latest_news/2009/2009127_1306.shtml| title = "St. Ambrose", Catholic Communications, Sydney Archdiocese|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402125901/http://www.sydneycatholic.org/news/latest_news/2009/2009127_1306.shtml|archive-date=2 April 2015}}</ref>
* The virgin birth is worthy of God. Which human birth would have been more worthy of God, than the one in which the Immaculate Son of God maintained the purity of his immaculate origin while becoming human?<ref>Ambrose of Milan [[CSEL]] 64, 139</ref>
* We confess that Christ the Lord was born from a virgin, and therefore we reject the natural order of things. Because she conceived not from a man but from the Holy Spirit.<ref>Ambrose of Milan, De Mysteriis, 59, pp. 16, 410</ref>
* Christ is not divided but one. If we adore him as the Son of God, we do not deny his birth from the virgin. ... But nobody shall extend this to Mary. Mary was the temple of God but not God in the temple. Therefore, only the one who was in the temple can be worshipped.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf210.iv.ii.iv.xi.html?highlight=mary,was,the,temple,of,god,but,not,in#highlight|title=NPNF2-10. Ambrose: Selected Works and Letters – Christian Classics Ethereal Library|website=www.ccel.org|access-date=10 June 2019}}</ref>
* Yes, truly blessed for having surpassed the priest (Zechariah). While the priest denied, the Virgin rectified the error. No wonder that the Lord, wishing to rescue the world, began his work with Mary. Thus she, through whom salvation was being prepared for all people, would be the first to receive the promised fruit of salvation.<ref>Ambrose of Milan, Expositio in Lucam 2, 17; PL 15, 1640</ref>

Ambrose viewed [[celibacy]] as superior to marriage and saw [[Roman Catholic Mariology|Mary]] as the model of virginity.<ref>''De virginibus'' (On Virgins); ''De virginitate''</ref>