Just north of us in the Languedoc is the town of St. Pons de Thomieres.
In the middle of the town is a fairly massive church, in fact because it was once the principal church in the region it is a cathedral.
This is very ornate inside with a truly ancient organ (the second oldest in France they say) and lots of great pictures and statues (yes they have a St. Roch )
On our first visit there we met a shabby old man wandering around inside.
He was fairly obviously the parish priest.
He recognised us as tourists and came up to ask us where we were from.
I said we were from Ireland but were now living in Thezan Les Beziers.
On a whim I told him that we had bought the old presbytery there.
His face lit up, “Le Presbytere en Thezan “ he said, “many the fine cup of coffee I drank there after saying mass on a Sunday”
It was a little insignificant meeting yet for some reason I treasure it.
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