The convent and the church were built in about the mid 16th century where probably there was the church of St. Senator which stood over the catacomb bearing the same name, but it reached its present aspect in 1687 thanks to the relevant contribution of Albano Municipality. The high altar, just like every other decoration of the church, is baroque in taste and received its polychrome marble decoration in the 1700s. Behind the altar there is a structure with a tympanum containing a painting of the Madonna and Child surrounded by angels. The Madonna’s robe is adorned with a star, this is what gave the church its particular name. On the wall that divides the presbytery in two, there are four plaster casts. The splendid coat-of arms of the Savelli princes, who were seigneurs of Albano for several centuries, stand out on the back wall. Next to the church is the historical public graveyard of the town, over whose entrance we can read the inscription telling the year of its consecration, 1833.
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