Here again in Venice is a church dedicated to an Old Testament prophet. In the Byzantine rite, Zaccaria was known as a saint. The church was founded during the Byzantine Empire—in the 9th Century--by Doge Giustiniano Participazio and the Eastern Emperor Leo V. San Zaccaria took its place among several other churches in Venice dedicated to Old Testament 'saints,' like St. Moses, St. Jeremiah, and St. Job. Leo V sent artisans from Constantinople to work on the original church, and may have paid for it, too.
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