Satyrus of Milan

Who they were

At Milan, the burial of Saint Satyrus, whose merits are recalled by Saint Ambrose, his brother: not yet initiated into the mysteries of Christ, having been shipwrecked, he did not fear death, but, so as not to leave life without having received the sacraments, once saved from the waves he joined the Church of God; a close and mutual affection bound him to his brother Ambrose, who buried him beside the holy martyr Victor.

The miracles

There was never a formal cause: he has been honoured as a saint since before the Church's formal processes began.

Why that counted as sanctity

The Roman Martyrology remembers him on 17 September as the brother of Saint Ambrose, who sought baptism after surviving a shipwreck.

Connected on this site

• Ambrose Saint Brother or sister
• Saint Marcellina Saint Brother or sister
  “327 – 397) was born in Trier, Gaul the daughter of the Praetorian prefect of Gaul, and was the elder sister of Ambrose of Milan and Satyrus of Milan.” — Wikipedia