Also known as St. Christ’s, the oratory is located in St. James Square next to that of the Anime Purganti. The facade, uncommon to “minor” churches in Cagliari, testifies to a marked taste for decorativism. Although the oratory presents itself as a unified structure as a whole, it had a rather complex genesis linked to the vicissitudes of the Confraternity that has its headquarters here.
Built between 1665 and 1667 on an earlier hall built after the foundation of the Brotherhood in 1616, it underwent radical changes between 1770 and 1725.
As a result of the new arrangements in the liturgy, the old altar, placed between the two doors, was dismantled and replaced with a larger and more valuable one, placed in the elevated area designated for the sacristy, and thus facing away from the entrance.
The interior consists of a rectangular, barrel-vaulted hall with a raised chancel enclosed by a wooden balustrade. A strongly projecting cornice runs along the impost of the vault.
Three niches open on the left side wall, while the entrances are surmounted by a chancel accessed by a spiral staircase. A grand wooden altarpiece covered with a patina of pure gold is placed at the back of the high altar.
The church houses wooden statues of the seven mysteries of Christ, commissioned from sculptor Giuseppe Antonio Lonis in 1758, which are still carried in procession during Holy Week ceremonies.
