Penitent

Ambrose was born about 339 at Trier, where his father served as praetorian prefect of Gaul — one of the four or five highest offices in the Western empire. The father died…

Verecundus was bishop of Junca, a town in the African province of Byzacena, in the sixth century. He died at Chalcedon in 552. His life ran into the Three Chapters controversy…

Augustine was born on 13 November 354 at Thagaste in Roman North Africa — Souk Ahras, in modern Algeria. His father Patricius was a pagan town councillor of modest means…

Romanos was born about 490 at Emesa in Syria — the city now called Homs. Byzantine sources say his family was Jewish, and that he was baptized as a boy. He served as a deacon…

Gregory was bishop of Illiberis — Elvira, near modern Granada — in Roman Spain, and he is remembered for a refusal that lasted the rest of his life. In 357 the emperor…