Here also, and in the other abbeys which he founded, he worked many miracles: making iron swim, restoring life to the dead, and so forth.

Another attempt to poison him, this time with bread, was made, but the deadly stuff was carried away from him by a pet raven.

For the rest of the saint's many wonderful deeds of piety you must seek _The Golden Legend_: an agreeable task.

He died in the year 518.
The best or most entertaining panels seem to me the first, in which the little bald baby saint is being washed and his mother is being coaxed to eat something; the fourth, where we see the saint, now a youth, on his knees; the sixth, where he occupies the hermit's cell and the hermit lets down food; the seventh, where the hermit and Benedict occupy the cell together and a huntsman and dog pursue their game above; the tenth, in the monastery; the twelfth, where the whip is being laid on; the fourteenth, with an especially good figure of Benedict; the sixteenth, where the meal is spread; the twentieth, with the devil on the tree trunk; the twenty-first, when the fire is being extinguished; the twenty-fifth, with soldiers in the distance; the twenty-seventh, with a fine cloaked figure; the twenty-eighth, where there is a struggle for a staff; the thirtieth, showing the dormitory and a cat and mouse; the thirty-second, a burial scene; the thirty-third, with its monsters; the thirty-sixth, in which the beggar is very good; the thirty-ninth, where the soldiers kiss the saint's feet; and the forty-fourth, showing the service in the church and the soldiers' arms piled up.
One would like to know more of this Albert de Brule and his work: how long it took; why he did it; how it came to Venice; and so forth.

The date, which applies, I suppose, to the installation of the carvings, is 1598.
The other carvings are by other hands: the S.George and dragon on the lectern in the choir, and the little courageous boys driving Behemoths on the stalls.
As one leaves the church by the central aisle the Dogana is seen framed by the doorway.