The church was erected by the Dominican order in the second half of the 13th century with bricks from the razed Augusta fortress.
[4] A 1877 survey from Ridolfi's Guide to Lucca noted among the artworks in the church was a canvas depicting a Miracle by St Stanislao allowing dead man to speak by Domenico Viola in the third altar on the right.
In the chapel adjacent to the sacristy was a painting depicting the Miracle of St Raimondi crossing the river on his mantle by Pietro Paolini and an Assumption of the Virgin by Guidotti.
The apse of the church had a marble tomb monument dedicated to San Romano, by Matteo Civitali.
On the second altar on the left side of the nave was a St Hyacinth, dominican priest, resurrects a boy by Domenico Passignani.