Subsidence and frequent landslides in the second half of the 19th Century caused this ancient chapel, devoted to the glorious San Calogero, to collapse. The statue was placed in a chapel of the church of SS. Salvatore temporarily and plans for the construction of a sanctuary near to the site of the old church were drawn up in 1885.
Several small houses in the area were demolished to make enough space for the new building which was to be in the form of a Latin cross, with a single nave, a transept, a central apse and two bell towers at the corners of the transept. Construction was started but interrupted after the nave was finished. This was closed off by the apse and the transept and the bell towers remained uncompleted. Finally in 1900 the sanctuary was finished and, in 1901, to the sound of music from the town bands of Naso and Ficarra, the new sanctuary was officially opened.
Damaged by the earthquake that destroyed Messina, the sanctuary was restored in 1911. Later, in 1922, the vault of the church was restored and a fresco depicting San Calogero with a deer and a hunter was added by Professor Giuseppe Ferraù.
In 1925, a bell tower was built and the old bell was once more set in its rightful place. In 1947, after the 2nd World War, plans were drawn up to improve the facade of the building, but the work was never carried out.
A recent restoration of the building has made it possible for ever more pilgrims to come and worship the saint.