Dedicated to the patron saint of animals, it stands on the slopes of the historic city center and in ancient times was used as a burial place for those who did not have the possibility of having a better burial place. Nothing remains of the original decoration of the Church as it was redeveloped and reused for worship in the 1950s/60s after having been used as a parish theater for some time. Of the ancient decoration, only an eighteenth-nineteenth-century painting depicting St. Anthony the Abbot remains of which a copy currently present in the current ecclesiastical furnishings was made by A. Manasseri (local artist).
The animals went there for the usual blessing of the cattle on the saint's feast day (also invoked to heal from the fire of St. Anthony - Herpes zoster - memory of the torments and struggles that the saint faced against the devil) on 17 January called "The Church of the Poor".
Today it houses part of the artistic maples of the Parish of S. Nicolò di Bari (collapsed for the second time on 14 February 2010) of which it is the Church Branch.