The first building of the church - founded in 639 on the request of the exarch of Ravenna Isacio and with the help of the magister militum Maurizio - was dedicated to the Mother of God and is the oldest in Venice; this is explained in an inscription discovered in 1895, still visible today next to the main altar.
Two great restorations later followed one another: the first towards the middle of the 9th century under Bishop Adeodato II, who laid the mosaic floor with black and white tesserae with floral motifs, the second - by order of Orso Orseolo Bishop of Torcello - in the early
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