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The Collegiate Basilica of St. Barnabas is the principal place of Catholic worship in the town of Marino, part of the suburbicarian diocese of Albano.
The first stone of the church was solemnly laid on 10 June 1640.
There are three doors on the front facade. Above the two side doors are niches surmounted with triangular cornices which hold 2m high statues in painted peperino. The left hand statue shows St. Barnabas, patron of the town, holding a palm frond in sign of his martyrdom, while on the right is St. Lucia of Syracuse, co-patron of the town, who is also holding a martyr's palm as well as a plate with her eyes that were taken out during her torture.
The interior of the basilica, as well-proportioned as it is open and unadorned, was designed by Antonio Del Grande, architect to the Colonna family.
The first altar (to the left) holds a Guercino, The Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew, on the second (to the right) is Our Lady of Carmel by Luigi Gozzi, while a painting by F. Rosa, of the passing of St. Francis Xavier, is placed at the entrance to the right aisle. The statue of St. Anthony Abbot in the first chapel is a Baroque opera by Ercole Ferrata. In the second chapel, that of the Holy Rosary, a display case in a column holds a relic from the battle of Lepanto – a wooden fragment from a Turkish or Christian shield – as a votive offering to Our Lady of Victory.

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