Around 1880, a local artist, Angelo Barone, who had a small stationery shop in the center of the village, decided to dedicate his life to that place; every day he walked to the place and with pickaxe strokes enlarged the cave, He created two other side rooms and filled the rooms with statues representing the life of Jesus and the Saints. Angelo died on 19 May 1917, his son Alfonso took over and dedicated 40 years of his life to the Church. By her hand, she assumed her final appearance. He sculpts other groups of statues, capitals with angels, bas-reliefs with sacred scenes, frescoes on the vault of the central nave and on that of the high altar. At his death there were no continuators.

Unfortunately, in the early '60s the Church was the object of vandalism. A boy (or maybe two), penetrated inside and with a stick beheaded and broke the limbs of several statues! Fortunately at the end of that same decade, a nephew of Angelo and Alfonso Barone, by the name of Giorgio, decided to return to Pizzo from Canada where he had moved and become a renowned sculptor, He should have stayed in his birthplace for only two weeks, but after going to visit the church and found it reduced to a pile of rubble, decided to try to restore it. He stayed in Pizzo for several months working continuously to resurrect the masterpiece created by his uncles. The restoration ended in '68 and obtained official recognition in '69 with a public thanks in the Council Hall of the City by Pizzo by Councillor Mannacio and Mayor Amodio.