The Window

Then, in another tone, he added: “For the moment, I don’t want to be the head of any parish when I’m old. I don’t want the same thing to happen to me as what happened to the meek Antonio Isabel del Santísimo Sacramento del Altar Castañeda y Montero, who told the Bishop that a rain of dead birds was falling in his parish. The investigator sent by the Bishop found him in the village plaza, playing cops and robbers with the children”.
The ladies expressed their perplexity.
"Who was he?"
"The parish priest who succeeded me in Macondo", said Father Ángel. "He was a hundred years old".

In Evil Hour