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Ambrose Corbie was born near County Durham, England, the fourth son of Gerald Corbie and his wife, Isabella (née Richardson), recusant/exiled Roman Catholics.
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Gerald Corbie died in Watten, Nord on 17 September 1637. Isabella Corbie was professed a Benedictine at Ghent and died a centenarian on 25 December 1652. Ambrose, aged 12, entered Street-Omer and, in 1622, the Venerable English College in Rome.
Having taught with some success for some years at Street-Omers, and been minister at Ghent in 1645, he was appointed confessor at the English college, Rome, where he died, aged 44.
