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Ednam Church is located 3 miles north of Kelso in the Scottish Borders. The first church was founded in 1105 by Thor Longus and dedicated to St. Cuthbert. It was destroyed in 1523 and rebuilt several times over the centuries, with significant renovations in 1902. The church has a rich history, including ties to the Scottish Reformation and local religious changes. A copy of Thor's original 1105 charter is still housed in the church today.
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.