Sant'Ambrogio ad Nemus is a

Baroque The Baroque (, ; ) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1750s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including t ...

style,

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convent in

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, Italy. The convent is no longer functioning, but the oratory or church remains. While the present church dates to a reconstruction begun in 1635, the site was associated with the founding of monasticism by

Saint Ambrose Ambrose of Milan ( la, Aurelius Ambrosius; ), venerated as Saint Ambrose, ; lmo, Sant Ambroeus . was a theologian and statesman who served as Bishop of Milan from 374 to 397. He expressed himself prominently as a public figure, fiercely promo ...

. The term ''ad Nemus'' referred to a forest outside of the medieval walls. The walls were frescoed in the 17th century. Above the entrance of the church are frescoes by the painter Cocchi.Lombardia Beni Culturali
entry on oratory. The young boy

Carlo Acutis Carlo Acutis (3 May 1991 – 12 October 2006) was an English-born Italian Catholic youth and amateur computer programmer, who is best known for documenting Eucharistic miracles around the world and cataloguing them onto a website which he crea ...

made his first Holy Communion in this church at the early age of 7 years in 1998. He died at the age of fifteen and was beatified in 2020.

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