The chapel is located close to Verdala Palace, the official summer residence of the President of the Republic.

However, during inquisitor Pietro Dusina's apostolic visit to Malta in 1575, he ordered that the two churches be combined, Thus they were demolished and one was built instead.

Bishop Davide Cocco Palmieri mentions that during his apostolic visit to Rabat between 1708 and 1710, the chapel was in a very good state and had one stone altar.

[2] Prior to WWII, the cathedral chapter used to celebrate vespers on the respective feast days of the two saints which both fall in December.

It did not suffer any structural damage during the war amidst the bombs that fell nearby however the titular painting did.