Two red granite columns, of the Ionic order, more colossal than the rest, support the triumphal arch between the transept and the nave, and which in the original church was erected in 440 by Galla Placidia, the sister of the Emperor Honorius. Each of these magnificent pillars are of a single block, from the quarries of Montorfano, near Baveno, on the Lago Maggiore.
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