 And your story begins with dreams in the mind of a pure and honest soul, Brother Nicephorus. What does he begin to discern in those dreams? Yeah, so he starts to dream that the saint is calling him to travel across the Mediterranean and to seize upon his corpse and bring it back to Italy. And the reason in the novel, as well as in reality, is that this is strange but true. People believe that the corpse actually wept a kind of a fluid