The troubles of a pastor

When St. Bernadette was told by Our Lady to have a chapel built on the site of the apparition, she went to tell her pastor - Fr. Peyramale. He didn't believe this young, uneducated girl. Can you blame him? Afterward, when Bernadette repeated to her pastor that the lady in the grotto said that she was the Immaculate Conception (a term he knew Bernadette could not have understood let alone make up), he started to believe her. Eventually, he became one of Bernadette's greatest defenders. It's not easy being a pastor.