San Geremia is a Roman Catholic church in the Cannaregio district of Venice. Its apse faces the Grand Canal, between Palazzo Labia and Palazzo Flangini. The first church was built in the eleventh century, and by 1206 it held the remains of St. Magnus of Oderzo. It was rebuilt under Doge Sebastiano Ziani and consecrated in 1292. Carlo Corbellini designed the current building in 1753, and the facade was added in 1861.
The brick bell tower is probably twelfth century, and it has two thin Romanesque mullioned windows at the base. Austrian shelling damaged the church during the siege of 1849.
The relics of Saint Lucy were moved here in 1861 from a demolished nearby church. Thieves stole them on November 7, 1981, and they were recovered in December of that year without ransom.
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