History Walks in VeniceScuola della Passione — School of the Passion — Venetia Descritta (1581)
The Scuola della Passione was a lay religious charity, established in the early 1500s when it quickly gathered a large membership.
Besides the Easter procession, it partook, with the Scuole Grandi, in the ceremonies at the cathedral of San Pietro di Castello, and, as other charities and guilds, in the distribution of alms and provision of dowries for young, poor women.
Despite its importance, the Scuola della Passione was never awarded the recognition as a Scuola Grande.
The charity was suppressed in 1810, during the reign of Napoleon, and its patrimony sold and dispersed.
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