The Church known as Our Lady of the Ball is wedged between other buildings in Ciciliano. It has a rectangular shape with two side altars and a main altar on a slightly raised apse. Doric pillars and columns divide the walls, joined with a molded double cornice which provides the base for the vault.
The smooth façade is decorated with smooth, slightly protruding columns, united with a single fascia. A gently jutting tympanum crowns the façade while the Theodoli family crest is placed above the entrance portal.
There are two different legends regarding the origin of the church's name. The first relates of children whose football dislodged the plaster which hid a painted fresco of The Virgin and Child on a wall shrine. The other tells how the Virgin saved some children from falling into a ditch while playing football. Both events took place in 1659.
The community decided to built a chapel to house the holy painting, giving it the name Our Lady of the Square, referring to where it had been found. In a 1681 report by the priest of the Church of Our Lady of the Assumption, Don Giuseppe Rossi, its building is dated to around 1600.
By the mid 18th century, the chapel was in a terrible state, despite the continuous flow of pilgrims who came to see it. The population decided to rebuild it on a larger scale and financial aid was requested of the Marquis Gerolamo Theodoli who offered to design and build a new church on the site. The Marquis was careful to provide the church with funds and to set up a chaplaincy so that worship could take place daily. In exchange, he requested the jus patronatus of the church, which he obtained despite some reluctance from the population, along with numerous privileges. Building work probably took place from 1755 to 1759, incorporating the fragment of fresco. Thereafter, the church changed name to become Our Lady of the Ball.