For anyone who read the Left Behind series, this could have been pulled right out of it.
I had a hard time believing that this man is actually a professor of medicine and a sort of medicine man as well.
When mens eyes are not on Christ, but wander in other directions..they become apostate .
Thus he danger of all the “veneration “ in this guys religious history . It is not hard to move from saints to the 4 winds or what ever