He was the prelate in charge of investigating miracles.

In April 1976, Hosur Narasimhaiah, a physicist, rationalist and then vice chancellor of Bangalore University, founded and chaired a committee "to rationally and scientifically investigate miracles and other verifiable superstitions".

He also investigated alleged miracles of Wulfstan of Worcester.

Its first episodes described the complexity of faith even better than the pilot of "Joan," but it lapsed quickly into a weird "X-Files" retread, where Skeet Ulrich, as a monk investigating miracles, had his free will bulldozed by creepy sci-fi demons.

The film opens in the Brazilian village of Belo Quinto, with Father Andrew Kiernan (Gabriel Byrne), a former scientist and an ordained Jesuit priest who investigates supposed miracles, examining a statue of the Virgin of Guadalupe weeping blood at the funeral of Father Paulo Alameida (Jack Donner).

Paul Callan, Mr. Ulrich's sensitive character, investigates supposed miracles for the Roman Catholic Church and is sick and tired of never finding any.

Monsignor Sarno said the church is investigating several possible miracles.

Ever since this incident, Declan has dedicated a large part of his free time to investigating miracles that occur around or to certain individuals in the hopes that it will bring some perspective to the miracle that saved his life.