The small church to the right of the cathedral is dedicated to Santa Fosca; the story took place in the early middle-ages, when Fosca, originally from the Middle-East, converted to Christianity along with her maid; after the baptism they were hunted down until they decided to face their trial; they were tortured, decapitated and their bodies thrown in the sea. A group of fishermen, moved by the death of such young girls, managed to fish out the bodies, and took them to modern Tripoli in Libya; the body arrived here in Torcello in the tenth century, when the church was built.
