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[[Image:Amvrosiy.jpg|thumb|200px|Saint Ambrose of Optina]]

Notre vénérable père '''Ambroise d'Optina''' (en russe: преподобный Амвросий Оптинский; properly '''Aleksandr Mikhaylovich Grenkov''' - Александр Михайлович Гренков, [[5 décembre]], 1812, Bolshaya Lipovitsa settlement, Tambov guberniya—[[23 octobre]], 1891) was a ''[[starets]]'' and a [[celibacy|celibate]] [[schema]] priest (''iyeroskhimonakh''), [[canonization|canonized]] in 1988 by the Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church.

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 [[Vvedensk Monastery]] of the [[Optina Monastery]] in Kaluga guberniya. A few years later, he was [[ordination|ordained]] a [[hierodeacon]], taking the name ''Ambrose'' in honor of Saint [[Ambrose of Milan]]. Two years later Ambrose became a celibate monk. When Reverend Macarius died in September of 1860, Ambrose became a superior of the monastery.

:Nous enseignant par dessus tout par ton humilité, patience et amour.

:Prie le Christ, l'Ami des hommes, toi notre fervent intercesseur, afin que nous soyons sauvés.

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*"Ceux qui pensent qu'ils n'ont rien, perdront tout."

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