It is still unclear who commissioned the church—either Baron Gaspare Lucchese, in memory of his father Giuseppe, or the Jesuits, who are also believed to have built the chapel of Saint Joseph on the SP1 Delia-Caltanissetta road (then the route connecting Naro with Caltanissetta, crossing the entire settlement of Delia, today’s Via dei Santi). The aim would have been to establish a church in Delia, their reference town, as it was closer to their convent-farm at Cappellano. The religious building, probably never completed, was nonetheless opened for worship, and the surrounding spaces took the name of the saint: both the square in front of the church and the adjacent street. The latter still bears this name and once connected the churchyard-square with the widening of the canal, a swallow hole for all the town’s rainwater, crossed by the pastoral road from Licata to Palermo. It seems that the church stood at the end of the flat stretch of road linking Piazza Sant’Antonio to the Licata-Palermo road, which near the church narrowed so much that, according to the municipal administration of the time, barely a litter could pass.