 King Ezana's Stela is likely to be the last example of this practice, which was abandoned after the Axumites adopted Christianity under King Ezana.Ezana was the first monarch of Axum to embrace the faith, following the teachings and examples of his childhood tutor, Frumentius.King Ezana's Stela is also the only one of the three major "royal" obelisks (the others being the Great Stela and the Obelisk of Axum) that was never broken.