The Bishop of Zamora

In nowhere in Spain did the Spanish flu kill more people than the town of Zamora. Now Zamora was renowned as being one of the most devout parts of Spain which was a very devout country at this time. The Bishop of Zamora had been seen as something of like a Wunderkind within church circles prior to this point. We're not set up with this guy being a great dude to handle the first plague that hits in an era where people know about science and how disease spreads, right?