Baring-Gould’s sources: Roman and Gallican Martyrologies. Authority: — A Life which pretends to have been written not long after his death, “ Discipulus vero ejus, Agrippinus nomine, qui secutus est eum ubicumque ambulavit, docuit nobis omnia quae scripta sunt de eo.” But this can hardly be admitted; the writer did not know the name of the bishop who succeeded Ambrose, and tells the legend of the keys found in the belly of a fish, which is the old fable of Polycrates and his ring, and it requires a lapse of a century at least for such a myth to attach itself to a saint.] S. Ambrose, Bishop of Cahors, finding that he could not get on with the citizens, shut himself up in a cell adjoining the cathedral, and spent his time in prayer. A woman troubled with a pain in her stomach came to him in the night, seeking succour. S. Ambrose prayed, and she ejected a worm an ell long. The woman went about displaying the worm, and creating the liveliest enthusiasm thereby in the breasts of the citizens, who were so convinced by the sight that S. Ambrose was a man of God, that they hung up the [Oct. id worm in the cathedral as a perpetual memorial of his miraculous powers and merits. Ambrose, finding that the feme of his worm-expelling powers brought him more visitors than he cared to receive, threw the keys of the cathedral into the river, and hid himself in a cave at some distance from the town. Thereupon a new bishop was elected and consecrated.1 After some years a fish was caught with keys in its belly. This became the talk of the city, especially when it was found that these were the long-missing keys of the cathedral. Agrippinus, the disciple of S. Ambrose, who brought the talk of the town to his master, to relieve the monotony of his solitary life, told him that the keys had been recovered. Ambrose bade him go to the Bishop of Cahors, and bid him come to his cave with three unlighted tapers, and promised, should these tapers light miraculously, that he would leave his cell The bishop came; the tapers kindled of their own accord, and so the saint left his place of retreat, but not to resume his charge. He made a pilgrimage to Rome, and died on his way home. His body was translated to Bourges.