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The return trip follows the outbound route in reverse, but after you have done a bit of dirt road and can see the sanctuary, you should be able to see a trail that heads down towards the pastures in the direction of a tall pole with lots of old signage (old red-and-white mark on a low boulder). Taking this trail significantly shortens the return trip. We don’t propose this route for the outbound leg because identifying it on the way up can be very challenging, either because of tall grass or because of all the trails made by livestock, whereas on the way down its relatively easy to use the tall pole as a landmark. There are two images of the saint to whom the sanctuary is dedicated, Saint Magnus. On the one hand, there is the roman soldier, Magnus of Cuneo, of the Theban Legion, which was decimated for refusing to venerate the emperor as a divinity, the survivors of which then spread throughout the Alps as evangelists (circa 286 AD). On the other, there is the Benedictine monk, Magnus of Füssen, born in 699 AD. 
Whichever is the correct Saint Magnus, first mention of the sanctuary dates back to the 1400s, but its most precious feature is the cycle of frescoes in the Botoneri Chapel, which has maintained its vibrant colors despite having been executed in 1514. The rest of the sanctuary dates back to a period from the late 1600s to the late 1800s. If you look at the ex votos hanging in the church, you will see many depictions of cattle, because the saint is considered to be the patron saint of livestock.