Venice islands: Santa Maria della Grazia (or La Grazia)
The little island of La Grazia was inhabited from very early times by
religious.
Today only remains an ancient hospice of pilgrims, a cloister of hermits whose successors were the monk of the Congregation of S. Girolamo da Fiesole.
The history tells that around 1439 some fugitives brought an image of the Blessed Virgin that was said to be the work of S.Paul, and the island, which had till then been known as S.Maria della Cavana, was renamed by the people S.Maria della Grazia.
In 1810 the cloister and the church of the Grazia were ruined, and a little later ther was built in their place a powder magazine, which was blown up in the siege of 1849.
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