Chiesa di San Giobbe
Dedicated to Saint Job, the Chiesa di San Giobbe rises above its campo in Cannaregio—named Sant’Agiopo in Venetian dialect. This is one of Venice’s five votive churches raised after a plague, connecting everyday devotion to the city’s public response to epidemic fear. The story begins in 1378, when Giovanni Contarini started a hospice and small oratory to San Giobbe on land he owned near his home. That oratory was completed by his daughter Lucia, with help from the Minor Observant Friars. Later, the present church replaced it through the work of Bernardino of Siena, supported by Doge Cristoforo Moro, who donated 10,000 ducats in 1471—three months before his death—and was buried here. Work began in 1450, paused until 1470, and the church was consecrated in 1493, among the first Renaissance churches in Venice. …
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