There is a first mention of the parish church in 835, in a deed of 15 June, expressing the will of Queen Cunegonda (nephew of Charlemagne), in which he appoints Sorbolo and the parish priest of the time. Originally, it was a Romanesque church with three naves, of which the remains of the apse, the naves and the perimeter walls are preserved. The building, preceded by a large churchyard, in addition to the space for worship, has three interior rooms used respectively as a sacristy, bell tower and technical room.

The main front in neoclassical style, has trabeation and tympanum above. The interior has three naves with six side altars. The bell tower, made of exposed bricks, consists of two floors, beyond the belfry. In the mid-fifteenth century the church was in poor condition and was thus restored by Counts Philip and Gianbattista Garimberti, who had obtained the “juspatronato” (right of appointment of the parish priest) of the parish.

Excavations on the floor in 1973 brought to light the perimeter of the apse and the bases of 4 Romanesque columns of the 12th century building. The area of the presbytery, restructured in 1983, has seen the recovery of an eighteenth-century altarpiece in which is inserted the tabernacle and a wooden choir.

Outside the sacristy you can see a small marble walled tile dating from the seventeenth century, depicting the Madonna, Child and Saints Faustino and Giovita, to whom the church is dedicated, thus testifying to the relationship with the Roman (children of a noble pagan family of Brescia converted to Christianity).

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Plain parish churches
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Piazza della Libertà
43058 Sorbolo