The floor slabs of red stone with beautiful lettering should be noticed; but all over Venice such memorials have a noble dignity and simplicity.
It will be remembered that the site of this church was determined by the vision of Bishop Magnus, S.John appearing to him and commanding it to be built in honour of his father.

The first structure probably dates from the seventh century; the present is fifteenth century, and beneath it is the ancient crypt adjoining the chapel of S.Tarasio, where in the twelfth century a hundred nuns seeking refuge from a fire were suffocated.

In the chapel are ecclesiastical paintings, but no proper provision is made for seeing them.

Eight Doges lie in S.Zaccaria.
Outside I found a great crowd to see the embarcation of the corpse for its last home, the Campo Santo.

This, I may say, was rather a late funeral.