They say an old man, who used to spend his days praying in solitude, lived in Prarayer. In spite of that, he didn’t go to Communion in the village on Easter day.

People spoke ill of him. Then the priest sent for him and the obedient old man went down to Valpelline. It was a warm spring day and the priest, before starting to confess the man who had committed a lot of sins, as he had never been to church before, asked him to take off his cloak.

The man agreed to that request and folded up his cloak carefully. Then he put it on a beam of light coming through the window. There it stayed, suspended, while the priest, amazed by the wonder, understood he was in the presence of a saint.

Today we can still see the prints left by the hermit’s knees on the stone where he used to kneel down and pray.