SAINT COLUMBAN PARISH CHUCH IN SAN COLOMBANO AL LAMBRO

The Parish of Saint Columban built in 1499, is characterized by a nineteenth-century neoclassical façade. With three naves, paintings by Bernardino Campi and Gian Giacomo Barbelli are kept inside. Among the side chapels is the votive chapel of the Rosary, which was erected after Manzoni’s plague of 1630. On the bell tower stands the statue depicting the blessing patron saint while among the works carried out by the provost Luigi Gallotta there is the grandiose reliquary of St. Columbanus completed in 1852 when he was certain to have the illustrious relic of a vertebra and a rib of the saint by Sant’Antonio Maria Gianelli, Bishop of Bobbio. Even today, on the feast of San Colombano which is celebrated on November 21 of each year, both the ancient eighteenth-century statue and the imposing reliquary are solemnly carried in procession through the streets of the historic center.