 The townspeople who hear the sermon believe that he was a holy man and revere him as a saint long after Ciapelletto dies.Panfilo is the storyteller of the first tale of the entire collection, which is also the first tale ridiculing then-current practices of the Roman Catholic Church (in this case canonization by the people).The earliest source of this story is found in chapter eight of Saint Sulpicius Severus's biography of Saint Martin of Tours.