Republic of Venice Venice, at one with the sea, was being born. Agnello was succeeded by his son Giustiniano, who stole the remains of Saint Mark the Evangelist from Alexandria, took them to Venice, and made him the republic's patron saint. According to tradition, Saint Mark was the founder of the Patriarchate of Aquileia. With the patriarch's flight to Grado after the Lombard invasion, the patriarchate split into two: one on the mainland, under the control of the Lomabrds and later the Franks, and the other in Grado on the lagoons and the areas under Byzantine control; this would later become the Patriarchate
Saint Mary's Square (San Francisco) will sever the sister-city relationship with San Francisco as "the relationship of trust has completely been destroyed". Saint Mary's Square (San Francisco) Saint Mary's Square is a park and urban square in San Francisco's Chinatown, in the U.S. state of California. It features a statue of Dr. Sun Yat-sen by Beniamino Bufano. The “Women’s Column of Strength” is a privately funded statue that was placed in 2017 after being approved by the Board of Supervisors. The memorial is controversial as the sculpture honors the comfort women who were women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army