Stones That Fell From Heaven

The Ensisheim stone, which fell in Alsace on 7 November 1492, was kept in the parish church; Sebastian Brant's broadsheets read it as an omen for King Maximilian.

Ursula B. Marvin, 'The meteorite of Ensisheim: 1492 to 1992', Meteoritics 27 (1992), 28-72

Stones believed to have fallen from the sky, revered as sacred in many cultures.

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Primary source

Livy, Ab urbe condita, book 29, 29.10-11 (29.14 for the reception at Rome)The Sibylline verse promising Hannibal's expulsion if the Idaean Mother were brought from Pessinus, and the king handing over the sacred stone the inhabitants said was the Mother of the Gods.
sacrumque iis lapidem quam matrem deum esse incolae dicebant tradidit
Herodian, trans. Edward C. Echols, History of the Roman Empire, book 1, 1961, 1.11That the Pessinus image of the Mother of the Gods brought to Rome was held to have fallen from the sky.
They say that this statue of the goddess fell from the sky
King James Version, Acts of the Apostles, 1611, 19:35Ephesus honoured an image of its goddess held to have fallen from the sky.
image which fell down from Jupiter

Scholarship

Ursula B. Marvin, 'The meteorite of Ensisheim: 1492 to 1992', Meteoritics 27, 1992, pp. 28-72 (abstract)The 127 kg stone fell at Ensisheim in Alsace on 7 November 1492; the paper surveys the poems, tracts and broadsheets that responded to it in political context.