Named Mên Scryfa, ‘stone with writing’, this standing stone bears the name of an early Cornish king or leader. Its Roman capitals read Rialobrani Cunovali fili, translating as ‘Rialobranus son of Cunovalus’ and were probably placed there between around 6-8AD, though the stone itself may be prehistoric. We don’t know much about Rialobran, but he was clearly a man of some importance at a time when Cornwall had its own royalty.
References:The Pilgrimage Church of Wies (Wieskirche) is an oval rococo church, designed in the late 1740s by Dominikus Zimmermann. It is located in the foothills of the Alps in the municipality of Steingaden.
The sanctuary of Wies is a pilgrimage church extraordinarily well-preserved in the beautiful setting of an Alpine valley, and is a perfect masterpiece of Rococo art and creative genius, as well as an exceptional testimony to a civilization that has disappeared.
The hamlet of Wies, in 1738, is said to have been the setting of a miracle in which tears were seen on a simple wooden figure of Christ mounted on a column that was no longer venerated by the Premonstratensian monks of the Abbey. A wooden chapel constructed in the fields housed the miraculous statue for some time. However, pilgrims from Germany, Austria, Bohemia, and even Italy became so numerous that the Abbot of the Premonstratensians of Steingaden decided to construct a splendid sanctuary.