The church, known as "geseta de Sant'Anna",<ref>{{Cite web|autore = |url = http://www.comune.brugherio.mb.it/export/sites/default/documenti/Settore_Servizi_alla_Persona/Cultura/in-giro-per-la-citta/chiese.pdf|title = La chiesetta di San'Anna in San Damiano|language= Italian|accessdate = 16 April 2015}}</ref> is located on the site of thea ninth century church dedicated to Saints Cosmas and Damian and attached to a monastery.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last= Porfidio|first= Vicky|title = Brugherio: i suoi luoghi, la sua storia|language= Italian||page = 52}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last= Sangalli|first= Enrico |url = http://www.parrocchie.it/monza/orizzontionline/libro/07Chiesa_SantAnna.pdf|title = La chiesa di Sant'Anna di San Damiano|language= Italian|accessdate = 16 April 2015|page = 68}}</ref> During his pastoral visit in 1578 Saint Charles Borromeo decided to demolish the building. In the eighteenth century it was built the new church: a private chapel adjacent to the Villa Viganoni-Benavides, the summer residence of the family Parravicini in the nineteenth century and now demolished. The church was dedicated to Saint Anne probably by Antonio Parravicini and his wife Isabella Blasi.<ref>{{Cite book|last= Porfidio|first= Vicky|title = Brugherio: i suoi luoghi, la sua storia|page = 53}}</ref> They placed the marble altar painting of the ''Education of the Virgin'' that came from another church in Milan. In 1808 Isabella Blasi put the at the sides of the altar two plaques of black marble. The first presents a petition to Saint Anne recommending father Blasio,<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last= Sangalli|first= Enrico||url = http://www.parrocchie.it/monza/orizzontionline/libro/07Chiesa_SantAnna.pdf|title = La chiesa di Sant'Anna in San Damiano|language= Latin||page= 71|quote= ISABELLA GENERE BLASIA / CONJUGIO PARRAUICINA /BLASIUM PATREM / DIVAE HANNAE / HEIC HAERES EX ASSE /COMMENDABAT / MDCCCVIII / ANNO AB OBITU II.|}}</ref> the second is a memorial plaque for the death of her husband and father.<ref>{{Cite web|last= Sangalli|first= Enrico||url = http://www.parrocchie.it/monza/orizzontionline/libro/07Chiesa_SantAnna.pdf|title = La chiesa di Sant'Anna in San Damiano|language= Latin||page= 71|quote= ISABELLA BLASIA PARRAVICINIA / INFRA TRIDUM / VIDUATA VIRO / ORBATA PATRE / HEU DOLOR / ANTONIO PARRAVICINO/ CONJUGALIS AMORIS / MONUMENTUM / MONUMENTO / P.I. / MDCCCVIII.|}}</ref>
== Architecture and arts ==
The nave is covered by a barrel vault and separated from the presbytery by a depressed arch with Jesus's monogram in the center,<ref name=":0" /> and floral motifs at the sides. The left aisle leads to the sacristy, used as a women's gallery in the past and accessible directly from the Villa. After some restoration, therethey were found five niches with murals of faux marble friezes and with archways decorated with golden stars. These niches contain two wooden statues of the Virgin and Child and Saint Joseph, a crown and a scepter with the palms of martyrdom in reference to saints and martyrs.<ref>{{Cite web||url = http://www.visitbrianza.it/index.phtml?Id_VMenu=470&daabstract=923|title = Brugherio - Chiesa di S. Anna in San Damiano|language= Italian|accessdate = 18 April 2015}}</ref> There are also paintings depicting the Stations of the Cross and two paintings of the Madonna, Saint Anne and Saint Joachim on the right and the Saints Cosmas and Damian on the left. The restoration of the main door,<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|url = http://www.ilrestauro.biz/restauri/chiesa/porte/porte.html|title = Interventi nella Chiesa di Sant'Anna in San Damiano a Brugherio (MI) eseguiti sotto la tutela delle Belle Arti|language= Italian|}}</ref>, windows and furniture<ref name=":2" /> was carried out under the supervision of Belle Arti.
