The temple has been more times destroyed and rebuilt after the earthquakes and the volcanic eruptions that have followed in the time. The first building goes up again to the period 1078-1093 and it was realized on the ruins of the Thermal baths going up again Achilliane to the Romans, on initiative of the count Ruggero, acquiring all the characteristics of provided ecclesia.
Already in 1169, a catastrophic earthquake almost entirely demolished it leaving absidale intact only the part. In 1194 a fire created notable damages and finally in 1693 the earthquake that struck the Val of Known it almost entirely destroyed.
In 1194 a fire created notable damages and finally in 1693 the earthquake that struck the Val of Known it almost entirely destroyed. Norman rests consist in the body of the tall transetto, two cut-off (perhaps coevi to the primitive plant) towers and the three apses semicircolari, which, visitable from the courtyard of the archpriest, are composed from big blocks of lava stone, big part of which has been recovered by Roman buildings of imperial age. Portions of wall of circle and the wall of prospectus have been englobed by the eighteenth-century reconstruction.
The vast and grandiose inside introduces one a plant to Latin cross and it is divided in three aisles. In the aisle of right, in a niche with a Baptism of Jesus Cristo, the baptistery is found protected by a railing in beaten iron. On the first altar a cloth towers of holy Febronia of the Borremans.
In front of the altar, supported to one of the twelve pillars that separate the aisle from that central, the grave of the musician it is found catanese Vincent Bellini.
The second altar has a great cloth of san Charles Borromeo, the third one a representing picture sant'Antonio in Padua, the quarter a Sacred Family with san the painter's Giovanni catanese Abbadessa and in the fifth altar an image of Saint Rosalia.
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