At the beginning…
The history of what in the course of time will become “Istituto Ciliota” has very far origins. In this place already existed a wooden oratory dedicated to Saint Susan, run by the neighbouring little school of Fraterna di S. Rocco. Because of the spreading of the plague, in 1484 the oratory was given, together with some adjacent houses, to Sister Chiara of the monastery of Santa Margherita in Torcello, in order to buy from the Grey-Friars of “Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari” a land on which they could build the new school.
To testify the link with the school, and the devotion to the Saint (whose corpse was kept by the Fraternita) there is, besides the naming of the church of the monastery, a painted terracotta bas-relief, placed in the frontage of the Institute entrance.