The Basilica of Our Lady of Patronage is a small countryside church located in Wied il-Għasri, Malta.

The present site of the church was previously occupied by another as early as 1530, as documented by the historian Achille Ferris.

This small chapel that was in place was dedicated to the Assumption of Mary and was built by the Cini family, the descendants of whom live in Żebbuġ.

There is evidence that the devotion spread to Gozo so much so that the new church built between 1737 and 1739 and consecrated on May 8, 1739, was dedicated to its present title.

Saliba requested that the Grandmaster of the Order of St John give him a larger piece of land on which a bigger church could be built.

The church of Our Lady of Patronage was elevated to dignity of minor basilica, and affiliated with Santa Maria Maggiore by Pope Clement XIII in 1768.