At the corner of via S.Gallo with via degli Arazzieri we find a small church initially called S.Salvatore, then became the oratory of the Congrega of Jesus Salvatore around 1311, when the, bishop Antonio d’Orso and some Florentine priests had simultaneously A vision in which Jesus dressed as a pilgrim urged them to found a hoped called “Domus dei”, where all the priests of the surrounding area or foreigners were welcomed who, out of necessity, should stop in Florence.
So it was that the “Pretoni” oratory was born with an attached hospital in via S.Gallo where the Florentine or too old Florentine priests were also hospitalized. Subsequently there was also a separate section for the “poor women”, held by a “shipping”, which was to be the wife of the “shipping” of the male structure. The oratory was also called “S.Jacopo della Congrega Maggiore” or “Congrega of the priests of the Holy Savior or the house of God and the Saint Savior” popularly called “Pretons”. Inside the oratory, the tomb of a character is kept a little particular on the model of my friends, it is Arlotto Mainardi called the Pievano.
