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|image = Santa_maria_deicarmini.jpg
|image = Santa_maria_deicarmini.jpg
|description = A small, but important Venetian church.
|description = A small Venetian church.
|location = [[Dorsoduro District]], [[Venice]], [[Italy]]
|location = [[Dorsoduro District]], [[Venice]], [[Italy]]
|dateconstructed = 13th century A.D.
|dateconstructed = 13th century C.E.
|functions = Church
|functions = Church
|features = [[View Point]]
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The church of [[Santa Maria dei Carmini]] was located in the [[Dorsoduro district]] of [[Venice]].<ref name="ac2"/> The church was originally called Santa Maria Assunta, and dates back to the 14th century.
The church of [[Santa Maria dei Carmini]] was located in the [[Dorsoduro District]] of [[Venice]]. The church was originally called Santa Maria Assunta, and dates back to the 14th century.


==Database Entry==
==History==
''Built in the 1300s, Santa Maria dei Carmini (Carmini for short) was founded by a group of women who made their livelihood stiching monastic aprons for the monks in a nearby Carmelite monastery.''
Built in the 1300s, Santa Maria dei Carmini (Carmini for short) was founded by a group of women who made their livelihood stiching monastic aprons for the monks in a nearby Carmelite monastery.


''Carmelites believed so much in these aprons, or scapulars, that the Carmelite Constitution stated it was a serious fault to sleep without one and saying Mass sans scapular resulted in automatic excommunication. Why? Because in 1251, The Virgin Mary made herself known to Simon Stock of Cambridge, and she told him that those who wore a brown scapular would be granted salvation.''
Carmelites believed so much in these aprons, or scapulars, that the Carmelite Constitution stated it was a serious fault to sleep without one and saying Mass sans scapular resulted in automatic excommunication.
 
''So, 200 years later, a group of women still huddle inside Santa Maria dei Carmini, working all their lives to manufacture salvation, distilled in the form of brown aprons.''<ref name="ac2">''[[Assassin's Creed II]]''</ref>


==Trivia==
==Trivia==
*This church is a [[View Point]] in ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]''.<ref name="ac2"/>
*The church has a [[View Point|view point]] in ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]''.


==References==
==Source==
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*''Assassin's Creed II''
[[Category:Venice]]
[[Category:Venice]]
[[Category:Landmarks]]
[[Category:Landmarks]]
[[Category:Churches]]
[[Category:Churches]]

Revision as of 01:14, 3 January 2012


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The church of Santa Maria dei Carmini was located in the Dorsoduro District of Venice. The church was originally called Santa Maria Assunta, and dates back to the 14th century.

History

Built in the 1300s, Santa Maria dei Carmini (Carmini for short) was founded by a group of women who made their livelihood stiching monastic aprons for the monks in a nearby Carmelite monastery.

Carmelites believed so much in these aprons, or scapulars, that the Carmelite Constitution stated it was a serious fault to sleep without one and saying Mass sans scapular resulted in automatic excommunication.

Trivia

Source

  • Assassin's Creed II
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