Sant'Elena
Sant’Elena is a Gothic Roman Catholic church at the extreme east end of Venice’s Castello, built on an earlier island landscape that once sat apart from the city. The first chapel here was founded by Augustinian monks in 1028, dedicated to Saint Helene from Auxerre. By 1175, they had established a convent and hospital, and in 1211 the monk Aicardo is said to have brought the body of Saint Helena of Constantinople from Constantinople to this monastery—after which a chapel for her relics was added. Religious life didn’t last uninterrupted: by 1407 the convent had fallen into ruin and the complex became affiliated with the Olivetani. Under Napoleonic rule, the church was deconsecrated in 1810. …
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