Vicenza, its abbeys, chapels and oratories

Other churches, also smaller ones, have given life to important centres of devotion, among which the following deserve special mention: The Church of San Giorgio in Gogna, an ancient building, bare and suggestive, which once housed the city's leper-colony, or the Abbey of St Augustine, seat of the Augustinians before and the Canons of San Giorgio in Alga afterwards, which still has the most important cycle of 14th century frescoes in the city.
The Church of San Rocco is instead from the end of the 15th century, and dedicated to the Protector Saint of pilgrims and sufferers of the Plague; it was also the seat of the Canons of San Giorgio and then changed into the Ospedale degli Esposti, to look after and assist abandoned infants. Finally we reach the Oratory of the Gonfalone and the Oratory of San Nicola, an important legacy of "private" devotion originating in lay groups meeting in confraternities to share their experience of faith and charity.

By the Arts Office of the Diocese of Vicenza