Georgina Sarah Godkin

The Monastery of San Marco Georgina Sarah Godkin

Excerpt from the book: Wealth and luxury, however, crept in, and as a natural consequence the brethren began to deteriorate rapidly. Here the Frati Predicatori (preaching friars) took root, and increased in numbers and influence; but they always kept up their connection with Lombardy, being still under the control of the Vicar-General of that State. About the year 1290 a small body of monks belonging to the Order of St. Silvestre took possession of a poor little building in the Piazza San Marco, and in the space of nine years they had completed the erection of a respectable church adjoining their convent.
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