Santa Rita in Sant'Agostino, Catania

Santa Rita in San'Agostino, sometimes just called Sant'Agostino, is a Roman Catholic parish church and sanctuary, located on Via Vittorio Emanuele II #318, in Catania, region of Sicily, southern Italy.

Monastic followers of St Augustine putatively arrived to Eastern Sicily fleeing the Vandal invasion of North Africa in the late 5th century.

Construction was endowed by the nobleman Ferdinando Guerriero, and the church was initially dedicated to San Giacomo (St James).

However, in 1577 all the monks died from the plague, and the town elected to burn all the contents of the monastery.

[1] The apse reutilizes columns (spolia) from an Ancient Roman building.