The Friars Minor of the order of San Francesco (precisely called Frari), arrived in Venice in the thirteenth century (sources attest to its presence between 1222 and 1227).
They lived on alms or practiced humble jobs and it seems that initially they were mainly hosted in the churches of San Lorenzo and San Silvestro. Their exponential growth meant that in the first place he was granted a permanent residence (an ancient abandoned abbey of the Benedictine order votive to the Virgin Mary) and later in 1236 a larger area between the area of San Stin and San Tomà called Badoer Lake (
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