Church of the Name of Mary (Cantrina)

In the centre of the small village of Cantrina stands a church dedicated to the Name of Mary, built in 1728. The building has a simple, sloping façade with a white, marble, architraved portal topped by a projecting cornice which, in turn, is surmounted by two slender volutes. The barrel-vaulted nave leads into the quadrangular presbytery, which houses the sole altar. Although the bishop's curia of Brescia granted Archpriest Emigli permission to build an oratory dedicated to the Virgin Mary, St Defendente and St Carlo Borromeo, when the church was completed it was dedicated to the Madonna and the two patron saints, St Giovanni Nepomuceno (the protector of bridges and waterways, given the church's proximity to the river Chiese) and St Eurosia (invoked against lightning and hail, which were harmful to the hamlet's wine crops).
The beautiful altarpiece, created by either Angelo or Antonio, depicts the Virgin Mary alongside St John Nepomucene and St Eurosia.