[1] Andrey Sertis-Kamensky was born at Nezhine in the government of Chernihiv and studied in the school of St. Alexander Nevsky, where he afterward became a tutor.

[2] He was famous not only for his interest in schemes for the alleviation of poverty in Moscow but also as the founder of new churches and monasteries.

A terrible outbreak of plague occurred in Moscow in 1771, and the populace began to throng round an image of the Virgin Theotokos of Bogolyubovo) to which they attributed supernatural healing power.

Ambrose, perceiving that this crowding together merely enabled the contagion to spread, had the image secretly removed.

The mob, suspecting that he was responsible for its removal, attacked a monastery to which he had retired, dragged him away from the sanctuary, and, having given him time to receive the sacrament, strangled him.