sooner believe in religious miracles to heal and stop the plague over any official medical theory on why the plague was causing so much destruction. Even at the very height of the hundreds of deaths each day during the plagues, the Venetians prayed harder and everyone including the afflicted and the dying would still heavily worship God. The notion if this traditional belief in prayer during the pestilence came from the ancient Hebrew tradition that all the pestilence was visited upon a sinful nation as divine retribution, as with plagues of Egypt or the epidemic that broke out among the Philistines after their capture of the ark. God’s anger had been directed at Venice and there was no time to lose, everyone knew that there was
