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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_basilica#cite_ref-treaty_6-0
 * http://stats.grok.se/en/200806/Utente:Rosso_Veneziano
 * http:/stats.grok.se/en/201006/Saint_Nicholas


 * http://www.stnicholascenter.org/pages/relics-in-the-lido-of-venice/
 * http://www.estuarionostro.org/chiesa%20di%20san%20nicoletto.php
 * http://www.stnicholascenter.org/pages/relics-in-the-lido-of-venice/
 * http://www.stnicholascenter.org/pages/anatomical-examination/

History
The monastery and the church, already existing at foundation of Venice (but founded, according to a legend, by the family Zancaruol), stood at a strategic point for the nascent Venetian power: at the main access to the sea.

From here, in 996 and 998 sailed off the first Venetian expeditions against the Narentine pirates. Again from here, the May 9 of the year 1000, the fleet led by doge Pietro Orseolo II took off for the campaign that led to the submission of Dalmatia to the republic of Venice. The event is still remembered in the Marriage of the Sea ceremony.

The present church had its first building in the year 1044, under the patronage of doge Domenico Contarini.

In the church, the doge Domenico Selvo was elected and crowned in 1071, since St Mark's Basilica was under reconstruction.

In 1099, always from this place, departed to east the Venetian participation to the First Crusade, led by Bishop of Olivolo and Giovanni, son of the doge Vitale Michiel I.

In 1100 here were laid the relics of the body of St. Nicholas the Great, patron of the sailors, to which the church was already dedicated; they were stolen from Myra of Lycia. However, in Bari other relics of the saint were already put in 1089, they were laid in the tomb, by Pope Urban II in person. Together the remains of St. Nicholas, there were the remains of St. Nicholas Uncle and St. Thedore.

St. Nicholas soon became the patron of fishermen, sailors and soldiers who were leaving for the Crusades in the Holy Land.

Nicholas was proclaimed protector of the Venetian fleet.

In 1202, the forces of the Fourth Crusade left from here.

In 1245 Salinguerra II of Torelli was buried here, he was a ghibelline nobleman who held the city of Ferrara for many years, and who disputed the primacy of Este family.

In 1623 the relics of St. Nicholas were transferred from the church to the monastery to accommodate the construction of the new building, before being placed back below of altar.

The present church is a monument of the XVII century (1627) belonging to a Benedictine monastery, which still retains a cloister of the sixteenth century, began in 1530.

Here it was, and it is today celebrated, the solemn mass of thanksgiving at the end of the Marriage of the Sea ceremony, during the Feast of the Ascension.

In 1806, because of the Napoleonic decree of suppression of the monasteries, the church was intended as a chapel barracks until 1926, when the Friars Minor accepted the assignment to ensure the management of the monastery.