Arcane casters not divine. What idiots would turn a way a priest who is known to help the town?

Well to my knowledge the towns folk are highly suspicious of mages and their ilk, or else Aramas too would find himself exiled out of the village like Lora did.

Zodiacspear (aka Timgood) 
Sothe (Master of the Crashing Wave monks.) Gerald (Rogue who thinks he's funny.)