If Saint Primo della Guglia G86 was a Roman martyr, this young man with a classicizing appearance could be the saint who, together with the martyr Donato, died in Mauretania, a region of Africa under Roman rule. With the emperor Julian the Apostate (361–363 AD), paganism returned to being the state religion and Christianity was once again considered illegal. Furthermore, at that time the Church had split between Catholics and Donatists: the latter were an African confession born by the will of Donato di Case Nere who carried out a series of looting, destruction and killings, until he invaded the castle of Lemellefense. Primo and Donato rushed to defend the altar, but were killed by stones.

Tales of the statue in Dome’s building site:

There is little information about this statue. It is known that it is most likely a late twentieth-century reproduction by Nicola Gagliardi, and that it was based on the original nineteenth-century model, as the saint was represented in the neoclassical art style. In fact, there is great care in the proportion and harmony of the forms.