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The 14th-century wooden Crucifix, known to Venetians as the Lepanto Cross, came to adorn the church of San Martino after the destruction of the nearby church of the Madonna dell’Arsenale. Venetian ship builders in the Arsenale and the Republic’s soldiers were devoted to this much-venerated object. Oral history relates that it was carried on a Venetian galley at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, Europe’s great victory against the Ottoman Empire.
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