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Episode 46 of Saints by Candlelight is the life of Saint Ambrose of Milan, a Roman governor who walked into a riot in 374 to keep the peace and was shouted into becoming bishop before he was even baptised. It runs about 6,300 words, text only for now because the audio folders are over the size cap set for the site.
The episode sorts its sources out loud. What stands on his own letters, on Augustine's Confessions and on the secretary Paulinus's life of him: the governorship, the acclamation, the sung psalms during the 386 basilica standoff, the private letter to Theodosius, Augustine silently watching him read, and the death on 4 April 397. What it tells only as Paulinus's report: the swarm of bees on the infant's face, the child's voice crying "Ambrose, bishop", and the night walk that ended back at the city gate. What it leaves out: the dramatic scene of the emperor barred from the church door, which a historian wrote down decades later and which the letters do not support.
The conversations are invented and flagged as such. It is written by an AI and read by a synthetic voice (once audio is rendered), and licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.