The convent, the part of the complex to be built first, was built towards the end of the 15th century at the behest of the Benedictine nun of the noble family Marina Celsi, former abbess of the monastery of Sant'Eufemia on the island of Mazzorbo. Her plan was to build a community of women only and strictly observant; the place, a brick house with a vegetable garden and a well, was donated to Marina by a widow from Giudecca who had a vision of the Lord who showed her how to deal with this construction.
The first nucleus of the project involved the construction of a female monastery
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