Description
It is a small church with a long and narrow plan, founded in 1685 and built next to the former church of San Vito, now an Auditorium. It has a single nave covered by a barrel vault and a small side chapel with a 17th-century crucifix. The apse is decorated with Baroque stucco and houses two canvases from the second half of the 17th century by an unknown artist: the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and a fragment of what is believed to be an Ascension. Another canvas from the same period, depicting The Trinity and the Souls in Purgatory, by the Messina painter Pietro Cannata, was stolen at the end of the 20th century.
In 1990, the church underwent maintenance work that revealed the crypt, filled with debris. Emptied and cleaned, it can now be visited and is always visible through a thick sheet of glass covering the entrance from the floor.
