Santa Maria del Rosario
Santa Maria del Rosario—often called I Gesuati or Chiesa dei Gesuati—is an 18th-century Dominican church whose story is tightly bound to Venice’s lay religious movement. The order of the Jesuates (Clerici apostolici Sancti Hieronymi) was founded in 14th-century Siena and had arrived in Venice by 1390, where they became known as *I poveri Gesuati* because they frequently called on the name of Jesus. Here, a small church on land facing the Zattere began in 1493, initially dedicated to St. Jerome (San Girolamo) and later to Santa Maria della Visitazione. When the order was suppressed by Pope Clement IX in 1668, the property was auctioned in 1669 and taken up by the Dominicans in 1670—hence the enduring name *Gesuati*. …
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