Chiesa di San Gregorio
San Gregorio—Italian Chiesa di San Gregorio—is a former Gothic church and abbey whose story tracks Venice’s changing power and religious life. The site was founded in the 9th century and became part of the Benedictine network through the Abbey of Santi Ilario e Benedetto, based at the western edge of the Venetian Lagoon in 989. When serious flooding struck after a war between Padua and Venice, the monks moved to their Venetian dependency, and San Gregorio became the Benedictine seat in 1214. In the mid-15th century, the church was rebuilt to its current appearance under a design attributed to Antonio da Cremona. A Commenda investment in 1450 to fund that work failed, and the abbey went into a long decline, ending with dissolution in 1775. …
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