the broke village priest who suddenly had millions and never said why

Rennes-le-Château, tiny village up in the Aude. the priest Bérenger Saunière shows up 1885, salary like 900 francs a year, normal poor country curé. then sometime in the 1890s the money taps just open. over the years he spends something like 660,000 francs of the period, building a weird villa, a to……