This church is a small building of worship, built and placed on a flat surface on a small hill in the centre of San Sosti (Cs). In one of the archaeological excavations from the Soprintendenza di Sibari supervised by PhD. Domenico Marino it was discovered that this place was inhabited in the X century BC

  A room which was meant to be the kitchen, some remains of domestic and wild animals, as well as a little oven were identified in the levels corresponding to the XVI – XVII centuries. The numismatic discoveries that belong to the XIII century are similar to those found in the archaeological site which is near it: Castello della Rocca. The lower archaeological levels belong to a period from High Medieval Age and the late Ancient Age up to the Imperial Age. In the levels of the Roman Ages (I BC – VI AC centuries) there were found several pieces of “sigilatta” pottery of Italic, as well as, Oriental and African origin. There were also found some pieces of glass and mosaic that date from the I BC – I AC centuries.

   Under the stratum of the Roman Ages were the stratum that belonged to the Greek Age (VI – IV BC).

   In that place the pottery found is for Athenian importation and they are part of a sacred area together with the rests of a building. In the foundation levels two votive pits with small pottery jugs (hydriskai, olpai and krjateriskoi) were found and some pieces of statues of women. In this same level painted pottery of Enotrian production in relation to the geometrical proto from the XI – X BC centuries were discovered.

                                                              
Dott. Domenico Marino