Belonging to "Osservanti Minori" friary founded in 1509 by Liege Carlo d'Aragona, was rebuilt in a new site at the beginning of 1700's. The holy building, with its great nave endowed with a crypt, was finished around the middle of the XVIII century. A beautiful portal and a bell tower dominate the frontage. Inside there are cave paintings and roccocò stuccoes. particularly interesting are the two high altar's columns adorned with bas-relisf recemes. Among the paintings, the Immaculate with the Saints Francesco and Rosalia, subsequent to the Counter Reformation, the Crucifixion, San Liborio as well as the Via Crucis stops distinguish themselves by its beauty. At the entrance, on the left, is the polychrome marbles' mausoleum of 1734 of Ascensio Battaglia, a famous commander and relevant person of the new town's rebuilding stage. On the nave's walls there are plaques of other ancient graves. In the apse there are Mario Mogani's works.

(source: Avola, la città esagonale)