This church, which since 1907 has been the city sanctuary of Calatafimi’s patron saint, Maria Santissima di Giubino, was previously dedicated to Saint Catherine V. and Mary Alexandria. “It was built in 1721, designed by the architect Giovanni Biagio Amico.” It replaced another church from 1573, smaller and corresponding at least in part to the current sacristy. In 1655, a plague of locusts was destroying crops throughout the Calatafimi area; the people gathered in the Mother Church, and there it was decided that, after placing the names of all the saints who had altars in the town’s churches in an urn (“busciolo”), the one whose name was drawn would be chosen as the patron saint. After invoking the Holy Spirit, a ticket (“polizino”) bearing the name of Maria Santissima di Giubino was drawn. The central section of the triptych with the image of the Virgin was hastily removed from the wall where it was embedded in the country church of Giubino and carried in procession, in what was later called “the cricket procession”; the Calatafimi area was freed of locusts. From 1655, the triptych was reassembled and restored only in 1931 by the Palermo sculptor Antonio Ugo and his son, the architect Giuseppe Vittorio Ugo.