The town of Serra San Bruno was created around the Charterhouse founded by Saint Bruno in 1090 in the Saint Mary of the Tower valley. It was the second house belonging to his order, after the main one built in Grenoble. He eventually had moved to Calabria on request of the Pope Urban II and here he died on the 6th of October 1101. In 1783 a violent earthquake destroyed many of the buildings in the region, killing thousands of people as well. This church was built subsequently (the inscription says 1795) and contains some of the statues which were previously inside the Charterhouse.
