The current headquarters of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta in Venice comes from a building which was the Templars, and in Following the confiscation of their property was assigned to the "Religious Hospitallers of St. John."
We find the first news of the settlement Templar in Venice in a deed of gift made November 9, 1187 by Gerard, Archbishop of Ravenna, certain lands located in Venice Fossaputrida location, so you should build a hospital and a church, there is reason to believe that the home and Church of San Giovanni del Tempio transferred after the suppression of the Templars to the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, were the ones it has now hosts the Grand Priory of Lombardy and Venice. The Fossaputrida would be the territory of San Giovanni in Bragora, the current parish in Venice.
In 1313 the Knight Fra Nicola da Parma, Prior of Venice, the Order of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, accompanied by Knight Fra 'Bonaccorso Trevisan, appeared to doge Soranzo to ask the property formerly belonged to the Knights Templars were recognized properties. The request was accepted and they will gain, as stated above, the convents and churches of St. John of the Temple (also known as the Furlani because in those living close to many people from Friuli) and Santa Maria in Broglio (or Brolo).
But even before the goods reach the Order of the Templars in Venice there is news of the existence of a Priory. As evidenced by a note dated 19 September 1263, at that time was of priority between 'Engheramo by Gragnana, which happened between' William Bolgaroni.
The oldest depiction of the Priory, we are given the famous map of Venice outlined by Jacopo de 'Barbari in 1500. In this woodcut artist, diligent and faithful in reproducing reality, you see the painted church and convent of San Giovanni del Tempio, then Malta, planimetric and volumetric appearance that still remain. In fact, many successive restorations at various times have certainly changed the look of the buildings, but not their basic structure. Lost
Malta in 1798, started for the Order a very sad period of its history. The Grand Priory of Venice, in implementing the decree of Napoleon on April 30, 1806, was suppressed and its property became state property. The Commendatore Fra 'Fulvio Rangone Alfonso, who was at that time and receiver Lieutenant of the Grand Prior, Fra 'Giovanni Battista Altieri, had to return the building to the State.
The Lieutenant of the Grand Master Fra 'Carlo Candida, elected in 1834, he worked energetically to the Holy See and other governments and obtained the restitution of many goods. In 1839 were carried over the old Grand Priory of Lombardy and Venice in a single Grand Priory of Lombardy and Venice, also with jurisdiction in the territories of Parma, Modena and Lucca, based in Venice, and Emperor Ferdinand I of Austria, with license On January 5, 1841, restored the church to the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of the Temple, the Priory building and the land used for vegetable garden.
The restored home of the Grand Priory of Lombardy and Venice was solemnly inaugurated on June 24, 1843, with the intervention of the Grand Prior, Fra 'Giovanni Antonio Cappellari of the Dove (nephew of Pope Gregory XVI) of Bali' between 'Federico Archduke of Austria. The latter had then died in Venice in 1847, and was buried in the priory church in 1854 in a tomb designed by Zandomeneghi, with registration Emanuele Cicogna. Many are the arms of the Grand Prior of Knights and paintings throughout the cloister of the Grand Priory.
radicals have now begun restoration work, aimed at restoring the palace of the Grand Priory and the Church, which had suffered considerable damage due to frequent floods and high tides in recent years have affected Venice.
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