In the place where on March 10, 1498, the construction of a small chapel for sacred representations was authorized, Father Stefano da Mantova began to build a small Franciscan convent with a small church, dedicated to Santa Maria. 

The location was in open countryside, near the important road, at the borders with the lands of Sesto al Reghena towards Ramuscello. The construction was completed in 1526, as reported on the tiles of the hall (from the architectural surveys of the apse, datings to the first half of the 15th century are proposed?). The image on canvas of a Nursing Madonna crowned by angels dating back to the late 14th-early 15th century by an anonymous Master of Cordovado, follower of Tommaso da Modena, was venerated there (today there is a copy of the original on the altar, which is preserved in the new cathedral of S. Andrea).

The altar has a wooden structure and rests on a stone altar covered by a frontal with wooden brackets.

In 1584, during a visit by the Bishop, five dedicated altars were mentioned: the main one to Maria, the others to S. Antonio, to Christ, to the Resurrection, to Santa Maria.

A fresco of S. Francesco with wolf is preserved, commissioned by the guardian father in 1635, probably to ward off the danger of wolves that infested and killed in these areas. The popularity of the church is confirmed by the pilgrimages that took place particularly in the period between 1607 and 1648 (even up to the entire 1700s), and graffiti on the walls are noted.

In 1656, the small convent was suppressed and in 1659 it was then sold to a certain Francesco Zurlin to finance the war of Candia of Venice against the Turks (1644-69). 

From this date, under the religious aspect, the church will depend on the parish of Cordovado, while civilly it will undergo various successions, leases, and legal disputes (from 1856 it passed to the Zanardini family, then to the Freschi, now to the Benvenuto family).