La parte alta della facciata della Chiesa di Santa Maria Maggiore.

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The fate of this place appears to be linked to a group of nuns and their confessor, who apparently received a message directly from the Virgin Mary.
The church is located in a place that seems timeless, in an area often frequented by students, and the former monastery that once housed the nuns is now replaced by the Venice Men's Prison.

In 1483 a group of devoted women asked for permission to build a monastery that would welcome them at Sant'Agnese in Dorsoduro. Not having obtained what they wanted, they were granted the area of ​​the arzeri novi in ​​Sant'Andrea where it is said that a hermit, in 1433, had seen the Madonna with the Child in her arms in that area.

The current church was built in 1523, while the primitive one dates back to the early 1500s, used for internal and exclusive use by the nuns. The adjacent monastery was built between 1509 and 1526.

Initially the church was very small an

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