According to a Winterstein legend, this rock was formed when, in ancient times, the devil rammed his walking stick into the ground in anger at the success of the missionary St. Kilian who came from this area, and the tip of his stick remained embedded.
In the summer of 686 Kilian, with eleven companions, travelled through Gaul, to Rome to receive missionary faculties from the pope, arriving in late autumn and meeting with Pope Conon.
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When Geilana, whom Kilian had failed to convert to Christianity, heard of Kilian's words against her marriage, she was so angry that, in the absence of the duke, she had her soldiers sent to the main square of Würzburg, where Kilian and his colleagues were preaching, and had him beheaded, along with two of his companions, Saint Colmán (also called Colonan or Kolonat) and Saint Totnan.
It was named after Saint Kilian (using the German language version of his name), the Irish saint who spread Christianity throughout Europe.
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