It stands on a hump raised about a meter above Via San Dionigi, not far from the important road axis that, touching Laus Pompeia, connected Mediolanum to Piacentia in Roman times, linking to the Via Aemilia.
Built during the 13th century, it preserves evidence of the existence of a Christian community in Nocetum since ancient times, as attested by some late antique finds unearthed by recent excavations and a marble funerary inscription from 536 AD. Fragments of a pictorial cycle-datable between 1350 and 1375-with a blessing Christ in mandorla are still visible on the apse wall.
The little church is the spiritual heart of the Nocetum Community started by Sister Ancilla Beretta, together with consecrated sisters and a group of lay people in 1988.
