Mentioned already in 1061, the church was given to the Serviti from 1254 and rebuilt at the end of the fourteenth century assuming the brick structure with a single nave with a truss roof, rectangular apse and transept. In the fifteenth century the walls were frescoed: few traces remain, such as the Madonna in the counter.

Indication of the importance are the graves of prominent families.
Between the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century, the church established a special relationship with the workshop of Civitali: there are many works in this environment that still remain today; the most significant was the group consisting of Angelo (now lost) and Annunciata, for which in 1516 Nicolao Civitali built an altar with a canopy with Hawksbill dome.

Next to the main door is a plaque commemorating the stranding in 1495 of a huge whale on the coast of Viareggio.
The carcass was brought to Lucca and hung exactly where now stands the tombstone, which reads as follows : "Whales, pistrici, dolphins and killer whales and other monsters of the ocean and of the sea, whatever (monster) you have, Nile, whatever it includes the admirable Gange, this beast alone gives testimony. The opening of the mouth and the rib demonstrate the vastness of the remaining body. The Tuscan sea threw it on the shore of Lucca in the year of health 1495. Nicolao Tegrimi poses."