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[[Image:Amvrosiy.jpg|thumb|150px200px|Saint Ambrose of Optina.]]Reverend Our venerable father '''Ambrose of Optina''' ([[Russian language|Russian]]: преподобный Амвросий Оптинский; properly '''Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Grenkov''' - Александр Михайлович Гренков, [[December 5]], [[1812]], Bolshaya Lipovitsa settlement, [[Tambov]] [[guberniya]]—guberniya—[[October 23]], [[1891]]) was a ''[[starets]]'' and a [[celibacy|celibate]] [[schema]] priest (''iyeroskhimonakh''), [[canonization|canonized]] in [[1988]] by the Local Council of the [[Russian Orthodox Church]]. His [[feast day]] is celebrated on [[October 10]], and the finding of his [[relics]] is commemorated on June 27.

==Life==Aleksandr was born in the family of [[sexton]] Mikhail Fyodorovich Grenkov and Marfa Nikolayevna Grenkova. At the age of 12 Aleksandr entered the Tambov clerical school and later the Tambov theological [[seminary]]. Then he became a teacher in the [[Lipetsk]] clerical school and in [[1839]] entered the [[VvedenskMonastery]] monastery of the [[Optina Monastery]] in [[Kaluga]] guberniya. Few A few years leater later, he has been imposed on was [[ordination|ordained]] a [[hierodeacon]] and was named , taking the name ''Ambrose '' in honour honor of [[Saint ]] [[Ambrose of Milan]]. Two years later Ambrose became a celibate [[monk]]. When Reverend Fr. [[Macarius of Optina|Macarius ]] died in Septemberof 1860, [[1860]] Ambrose became a superior of the [[monastery]].

Ambrose died in the Shamordinskaya cloister and was buried in the Optina desert. His relics were placed in the Vvedensk monasteryMonastery.

==QuotesQuotations==*"One should live unhypocriticaly unhypocritically and behave exemplarily , then our cause will be right , otherwise bad" (Russian: «Нужно жить нелицемерно и вести себя примерно, тогда дело наше будет верно, а иначе будет скверно»)*"To live and do not to grieve, condemn no one, and bother no one , and my respect for everyone best regards to all" («Жить - не тужить, никого не осуждать, никому не досаждать, и всем мое почтение»)

== See Also Source== *[[Optina Monastery]]  http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ambrosius_of_Optina&oldid= Source == [[107827333 Wikipedia:Ambrosius of Optina]] 

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