The relationship of the Augustinian order and Melipilla dates back to the city foundation. After officially decreeing the village foundation in the Melipilla Valley on October 11, 1742, with the name of Logroño de San José, honoring the Spanish city of Logroño, where the then governor José Antonio Manso de Velasco came from, father Francisco de Aranízar, Augustinian provincial prior, asked the governor to transfer land from the just squared zone in order to move the convent, then located in Santa Rita de Perquilauquén area, to the Melipilla Valley. Governor handed over land just two blocks away from the Main Square; there the convent was built, the first of the village. The church was built the same year that the city was officially founded.

In 1893, the church and the adjacent cloister that remain until today were built, entirely out of adobe. Its large tower could be seen from afar, since houses of the zone that remain from the colonial period used to have only one floor. However, an earthquake that struck the area in 1906 damaged its structure. Nevertheless, the church continued receiving parishioners.

The 1985 earthquake worsened the damages in the construction. In order to provide some kind of protection, both the temple and the cloister were declared National Monuments in 1988 due to their historical importance for the area and their architectural structure, because it is one of the last churches built in adobe that remains standing in the Metropolitan Region.

Unfortunately, the 2010 earthquake cause serious architectural and structural damages, such as pillar displacement, cracks and crevices in most of its adobe walls, and fallen roof. For this reason, the church closed its doors to parishioners and local community in order to protect their integrity.

The Ministry of Public Works, by mid-2012, developed a project for restoring the church, consisting in a call for bids from construction firms to carry out a technical evaluation of damages and to create a reconstruction and restoration plan for the building. In a first instance, it was concluded that, though serious, damages did not constitute an imminent hazard of collapsing, but it did exist a potential risk of major damages if another similar earthquake occurred.