The church of San Girolamo was built around the fifteenth century next to the ancient monastery of the Poor Clares. In 1578 the church became the seat of the confraternity of San Girolamo of Misericordia which had the task of curing the rites of Holy Friday.
The façade, of modest architecture, has a mullioned window under which is carved the coat of arms of the confraternity.
The interior is covered by a coffered roof and has on the main altar a painting on canvas of the seventeenth century, It represents ”Saint Girolamo penitent”, from Caravaggio school or influence. Much has been said about this painting, because probably the great painter (Caravaggio) was been in Licata, before going to exile in Malta. The church preserves the simulacra that are carried in procession for the recurrence on Holy Friday: an expressive image of the ‘Addolorata’, a beautiful wooden golden urn, in which lies the statue of the dead Christ and the cruciferous Christ, which is mounted only for the procession.
At the foot of the nave there is the tombstone of 1758, containing epigraph and coat of arms, by the notary Giovanni Vincenzo Mortelliti, baron of San Giovanni.
