Repeated displays of the sacrament, as well as prayers and processions to churches dedicated to San Rocco and San Lorenzo Giustiniani, had failed to stem the epidemic.

It is also decided that the Senate will visit the church each year.

On November 21, the Feast of the Presentation of the Virgin, in a celebration known as the Festa della Madonna della Salute, the city's officials parade from San Marco to the Salute for a service in gratitude for deliverance from the plague.

This involves crossing the Grand Canal on a specially constructed pontoon bridge and is still a major event in Venice.