Santi Felice e Fortunato di Ammiana
Santi Felice e Fortunato di Ammiana was the name of a Benedictine monastery founded in 899 in Ammiana , a city in the northern lagoon of Venice . It was located near today's island of la Salina , where some place names, such as the palude di San Felice or the canale di San Felice, recall the monastery.
It was founded by monks from the Santo Stefano di Altino monastery, who had left Altinum while fleeing from Hungary and who carried out raids in northern Italy . In the sources, however, the monastery consecrated to Saints Felix and Fortunatus does not appear until 1074; According to legend, the two saints fell victim to the persecution of Christians under Emperor Diocletian . The two brothers therefore lived in a hut in a forest near Aquileia because they preferred to have contact with wild animals than with the heathen. In the following decades the monastery received numerous donations, especially on the island of Sant'Erasmo . The monastery became the burial place for several doges, including Orso II Particiaco (912-932) in 932 . The Doge Pietro Badoer (939–942) is said to have been buried in the church of the monastery of San Felice di Ammiana.
In 1419 the monks left the monastery and went to Venice, and Ammiana also had to be abandoned due to increasing swamp. The city fell victim to the rising water level of the lagoon, silting up by the sediments of the Sile River and malaria . In 1472 Pope Sixtus IV abolished the monastery. The ruins of the monastery were still being marked on maps in the 16th century. The floods of 1966 destroyed many of the remains visible on the surface of the water.
The Archivio storico del Patriarcato di Venezia (Historical Archive of the Patriarchate of Venice) is located in a wing on the 3rd floor of the Benedictine monastery of Santi Felice e Fortunato di Ammiana, which has been relocated to Venice, behind St. Mark's Basilica and the Doge's Palace on the other side of the Rio di Palazzo.
literature
- Davide Busato, Mario Rosso, Paola Sfameni: Le conseguenze delle variazioni geografiche avvenute tra il XIII ed il XV secolo su talune comunità monastiche ubicate in alcune isole della laguna nord di Venezia , o. O., o. J. [2007?]
- Marco Pozza: Un falso placito per il monastero dei Santi Felice e Fortunato di Ammiana (935 febbraio) , in: Laura Pani: In uno volumine. Studi in onore di Cesare Scalon , Udine 2009, 503-512.
Remarks
- ↑ A situation map can be found here ( memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
