The church was built by the Barresi in the mid-1500s, as the seat of a brotherhood devoted to this hermit.
The Branciforti built the monastery, where in 1631 the Augustinian monks residing outside the city were transferred.
Saved from the earthquake of 1693, today it lies in ruins: the church went into disuse and the monastery was converted into a seat of public schools until 1950.
Its precious works of art, including the seventeenth-century statue of San Leonardo, can be admired at the San Nicolò Museum.
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