Built in the early sixteenth century by the will of the Scopoli family, it remained its property until the eighteenth century, after which it was donated to the community of Mezzano. The small church was built to allow coal workers and peasants, who stayed at work in the town for several months, to have a convenient place of worship for Sunday Mass.
Named after Saints John the Baptist and Evangelist, it was always the destination of a participatory procession, which moved from Mezzano, on the day of the patron saint, 24 June.
After the solemn celebration, the participants were always offered a simple lunch, the expense of which was first borne by the founders and then by the Municipality. The church offers a cozy classroom and is furnished with a wooden altar.
In the apse, a sequence of saints is painted, surrounding a suffering Christ supported by Our Lady and Saint John the Evangelist. Among them are San Onofrio semi-naked, Saints Rocco and Sebastiano invoked against the plague, San Giovanni Battista and San Leonardo, protector of prisoners with chains in his hand; in two niches painted on the sides appear Santa Romina and Santa Corona. In the basin of the apse stood – now the painting is mutilated – a redeeming Christ welcomed in a luminous almond, accompanied by the evangelists in the form of animals (now only the bull is seen with the gospel between its legs representing Saint Luke), according to an iconography dear to the frescoes of the Nauritius family, who worked here in 1524.
These artists always proposed the same motif also in San Silvestro in Imèr, San Giacomo in Tonadico and in the church of San Martino in Fiera di Primiero.
Names, dates and votive phrases were engraved on the paintings by faithful who came here over the centuries. It is not the work of vandals of the past, it was instead the action of the faithful who believed in this way to communicate more directly with the saints.
On the plumes of the holy arch there is an Annunciation and a cartouche with the date of completion of the work.
